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• We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

  Adi Da

  Controlled

  Da Free John, Adi Da Samraj (1978). “The Enlightenment of the Whole Body: A Rational and New Prophetic Revelation of the Truth of Religion, Esoteric Spirituality, and the Divine Destiny of Man”

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• Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Hatred, Humanity

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• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Order, Play, Differences

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• Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.

  Naomi Wolf

  Erotic, Desire, Sexiness

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• Have a defined mission with clear goals and timelines. I still trust the staff, with as little oversight as possible. Do things to show them that their time is as valuable to you as it is to them. Don’t be afraid to ‘fly solo.’

  Pete Olson

  Clear Goals, Littles, Staff

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, May, Sides

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.18, Routledge

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• I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.

  Rands

  People, Working Together, Needs

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• A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Style, May

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• The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Military, Roles, Understood

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.80, Penguin

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• Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.

  Richard Hugo

  Needs, Four, Ugly

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• I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Way, Orthodoxy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

  Ian MacKaye

  Emotional, Interesting, Humanity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.

  Tessa Thompson

  Real, Thinking, Body

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Greatness, Civilization

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.115, Vintage

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• To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Lying, Law, Facts

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• I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

  Bob Herbert

  Party, Thinking, Looks

  "Bob Herbert and Reihan Salam on What the 2012 Election Reveals About America". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Doe, Want, Existence

  Simone de Beauvoir (1948). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”

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• I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Needs, Definitions

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• When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.

  Christine Ebersole

  Remember Who You Are, Asking, Barriers

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• I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.

  Norbert Wiener

  Determination, Inspire, May

  Norbert Wiener (1961). “Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, p.25, MIT Press

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• Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business [entertaining], love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.

  Cedric the Entertainer

  Doors, Names, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  War, Writing, Profound

  "Half of a Yellow Sun". Interview with Rina Palta, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2006.

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• It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

  Kristina Schroder

  Mean, Humanity, Survival

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

  Tyler Drumheller

  Needs, Target, Action

  Tyler Drumheller (2006). “On the Brink: An Insider's Account of how the White House Compromised American Intelligence”, Public Affairs

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