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Tag Name "Definitions" (1078)

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The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances on this planet. What the world needs today is a convergence of the different religions in the search for and definition of the cosmic or divine laws which ought to regulate our behavior on this planet.
Robert Muller
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A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.
Michael Josephson
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If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an effort,to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them, apart, perhaps, from some circle of immediate associates.
Noam Chomsky
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If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.
Orson Scott Card
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There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
Ron Paul
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My definition of sexy is not just using what you got from God, but also that you represent what you believe in. I don't want people to think I'm sexy for what I look like, I want them to find me sexy for who I am and what I do.
Jessica Biel
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The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.
Henry Beard
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If socialism is defined as ownership of the means of production--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.
Peter Drucker
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You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
Anthony Browne
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Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.
John D'Agata
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.
Stephanie Strickland
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Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.
Diane Nash
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The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.
Edward Snowden
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A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.
Gish Jen
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The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.
Howard Zinn
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Heard someone say children are god's gift to the world. What world are you referring to? And what's your definition of gift?
Dov Davidoff
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art, n. This word has no definition.
Ambrose Bierce
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
Lewis Carroll
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
Gary Bauer
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The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a Christian (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
Soren Kierkegaard
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