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Tag Name "Definitions" (1078)

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In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Truth by definition excludes.
Ravi Zacharias
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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.
Anatol Rapoport
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Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
Hal Duncan
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
Octavia Butler
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Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write a whole story, a whole book. A writer has to be able to look at that story and see whether or not a character works, whether or not a character needs further definition.
Stephen Coonts
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
Aimee Mullins
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If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.
Flavor Flav
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Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.
Paulo Coelho
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But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
Black Francis
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Robert Morgan
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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
Adam Carolla
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Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
Pat Barker
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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
Eric Greitens
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My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.
Tony Hawk
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The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.
Sam Brownback
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
Douglas Coupland
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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
T. S. Eliot
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Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.
B. R. Ambedkar
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Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
Paula Fox
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
David Hockney
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
Milan Kundera
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