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• It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

  Dave Barry

  Art, Experts, Spending

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.22, Ballantine Books

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• Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspiring, Men, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

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• The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.

  Annie Besant

  People, Different, Needs

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• In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

  David Bohm

  Movement, Mechanic, Quantum

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.18, Routledge

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• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

  Edward de Bono

  Happiness, Positive Attitude, Differences

  In Observer 12 June 1977

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• Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

  John O. Brennan

  Powerful, Hatred, United States

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• Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

  David Byrne

  Attitude, Musical, Style

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• The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

  Italo Calvino

  Race, Should, Humans

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• Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

  Kirk Cameron

  Gay, Men, Garden

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nice, Memorable, Patriotic

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• I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

  Michael N. Castle

  Wall, College, Remember

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• Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

  Steve Coogan

  Successful, Ifs

  "The Life and Opinions of Steve Coogan". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2005.

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• We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, Environment, Live Every Day

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Perspective, Shadow

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Air, Cells

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gay, Firsts, Theocracy

  "Stephen Hawking Endorses Iranian and Chinese Repression" by Alan Dershowitz, www.algemeiner.com. May 10, 2013.

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• By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

  John Dewey

  Elements, Distinction, Complexes

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.246, SIU Press

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• New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.

  Junot Diaz

  New York, Two, Vision

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• The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Practice, Hypocrisy, East

  'Contarini Fleming' (1832) pt. 5, ch. 10

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  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

  Peter Drucker

  Money, Business, Insperational

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• Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Practice, Abduction, Use

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• Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Power, Men, Names

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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