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• It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?

  Natalie Dormer

  People, Half, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.

  Natalie Dormer

  Girl, Feminist, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

  Nate Parker

  Kids, Remember, Conversation

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.

  Nate Parker

  Sex, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then all of sudden you have something to protect.

  Nate Parker

  Crazy, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.

  Oliver Stone

  Nuts, People, Empathy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.

  Wilbur L. Creech

  Leadership, Believe, Mean

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• You have to have the definition of what you're trying to do across the system.

  Hosain Rahman

  Trying, Hardware

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• A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.

  Paul Kurtz

  Consistency, Adequacy, Asking

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• Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition of the female or feminine hero, but also villains and more complex, nuanced female characters. Too often I hear men say, "I don't know how to write women." Here you go, here are five incredible women you can use to inspire your own stories.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Real, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• There isn't a formal definition of success.

  Ernest Sosa

  Formal, Definition Of Success

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you are a large company and you want to do something unique, you almost by definition have to tap onto the core business in some way. Otherwise you are going into a naked fight against startups, and that's just a tough place to be.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Fighting, Unique, Naked

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Epilepsy, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

  Edward Boyden

  Worry, Consciousness, Very Good

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.

  Edward Boyden

  Interesting, Brain, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

  Barack Obama

  Being Real, Problem, Desks

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Fun, Passion, Punishment

  Source: sojo.net

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• There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys by doing larger-than-life things. And I don't think that's a useful definition.

  Kurt Busiek

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• "Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.

  Kurt Busiek

  Thinking, Order, Superhero

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My definition of prosperity would be quite different than what most people probably imagine or think, because I think that a wholeness word that means nothing missing, nothing broken. It's not finances or materialism.

  Paula White

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: culteducation.com

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• A spirit is a great definition for me.

  Paula White

  Spirit

  Source: culteducation.com

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• I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.

  Paula White

  Thinking, Trying, Impossible

  Source: culteducation.com

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• I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

  James W. Loewen

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

  Kenneth Lacovara

  Extinction, Snail, Species

  "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

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• On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself. That the problem is not simply a mistake may have been made about definitions, but that awful vulgarians are encroaching upon their sacred places. [Bob] Dylan, to them, is the harbinger of the low-culture mob; the latest in an unending number of final straws, or the thin end of a wedge that never seems to get thicker.

  David Bennun

  Mistake, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: thequietus.com

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