Defined Quotes - Page 25

• The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

  Warren Buffett

  Circles, Important, Term

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• Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

  Haruki Murakami

  Civilization, People, Fence

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• Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

  Zechariah Chafee

  Struggle, Government, Issues

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• The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Mean, Order, Departure

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• Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and mathematics that a more apt definition became fully evident: mathematics is the science of patterns.

  Lynn Steen

  Numbers, Space, Patterns

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• Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

  John Allen Paulos

  Enough, Mathematics

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• As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

  Herbie Mann

  Thinking, Crafts, Lists

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• A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

  Aristotle

  Taken, May, Speech

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.12, Aeterna Press

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• Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

  Michael Porter

  Cutting, Average, Skills

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!

  Maria Borges

  Voice, Media, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

  Caroline Dries

  Character, Thinking, College

  Source: collider.com

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• Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Games, Play

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• The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

  Isaac Asimov

  Cutting, Self, Humanity

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

  Frank Herbert

  Quality, Definitions, Creation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.91, Penguin

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• Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

  Huston Smith

  Beautiful, Religious, Lakes

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Circles, Formulas

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.213, Princeton University Press

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• The God content of the past no longer sustains the contemporary spirit.  We sense that our only hope is to journey past those definitions of a God who is external, supernatural, and invasive, which previously defined our belief.  We must discover whether or not the death of the God we worshiped yesterday is the same thing as the death of God.

  John Shelby Spong

  Past, Journey, Yesterday

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• Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.

  Benito Mussolini

  People, Secret, May

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• In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis belong to operations, as distinguished from the objects operated upon and from the results of the operations performed upon those objects, is very strikingly defined and separated.

  Ada Lovelace

  Independent, Peculiar, Analysis

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• Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hard Work, Should Have, Easy

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• It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Rhetorical Strategies, Law, Catholic

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• Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Data, Understanding, Add

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• The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

  Simon Critchley

  Odd, Paradox, Currents

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• Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Individual Choice, Choices, Morality

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• If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

  Adam Gopnik

  People, World, Causes

  "No more Mr. Tough Guy" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2014.

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