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Tag Name "Definitions" (1078)

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Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.
Alva Myrdal
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I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
Nina Simone
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Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.
Richard Yates
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I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
Karen Joy Fowler
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all things attain their highest expression, for the universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.
Thomas Berry
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Bierce
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God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.
Steve Allen
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Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.
Jo Beverley
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Ezra Pound
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The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.
Jürgen Moltmann
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Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?
Jim Rohn
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
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We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.
Gilbert N. Lewis
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Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin.
George Aiken
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Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
Kay Granger
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Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
Francis Chan
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Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
Carl Magnusson
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Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.
Stephen King
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman
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My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.
Audre Lorde
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Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.
Ron Smothermon
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I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.
Rick Warren
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