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• Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

  Raphael Soyer

  Art, Feelings, Perception

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• The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

  M. Scott Peck

  Essence, People, Growing

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Black, Female, Racist

  Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

  Alain de Botton

  Justice, Phrases, Window

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• I'm sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word "is" is?

  William J. Clinton

  Sorry, Please, I'm Sorry

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• Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

  Bill Veeck

  Team, Individual Effort, Games

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• The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Baseball, Men, Heathen

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Your words, your schedule, your choices, your obedience, the way you savor your victories and the way you swallow your defeats all help to define your life. It is this definition that your children rely on most as they seek to chart their own future.

  Tim Kimmel

  Children, Choices, Victory

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• Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Atheist, Real, Lying

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• It is scripture alone, not conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the definition of what we should believe. The authority of the scripture means that all the words in scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

  Wayne Grudem

  Believe, Mean, Way

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• Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

  Brian Tracy

  Mind, Genius, Conscious

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• Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  George Will

  Marriage, Funny Love, Triumph

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• By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

  R. C. Sproul

  Differences, Justice, Mercy

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017

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• The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

  Timothy Keller

  Long, Doe, Moral

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• If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

  Jim Boeheim

  Blunt, Ifs

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• A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Athlete, Night, Fishing

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• If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

  James Cook

  Insanity, Different, Expecting

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• My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

  N. Scott Momaday

  Moon, Vision, Gone

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.12, UNM Press

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• We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

  Aristotle

  Self, Excellence, Events

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• Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Play, Break, Defined

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• I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

  Kenny Werner

  Modern, Used, Traditional

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, but the ability to transmit that selfunderstanding to others...To experience yourself as "voiceless" is a definition of depression, subjugation, and being counted out. .

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Self, Voice, Political

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• They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

  David Mamet

  Mother, Law, Cadillacs

  "Home is the hunter". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2000.

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• The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.

  Hugh Ross

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Misunderstood

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• The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can't beat the market. As I always say, the iron rule of life is that only 20% of the people can be in the top fifth. That's just the way it is.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Iron, People

  "A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1994.

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