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• For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

  George Clooney

  Country, Government, Patriot

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

  Stockwell Day

  Media, Court, Cases

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Morning, Thinking

  "The Words of Extraordinary Women" by Carolyn Warner, October 8, 2010.

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• By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sacred, Break, Continuity

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• Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, Iran, Iraq

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Peace, Work, Ubuntu

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• I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Law, Unions

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• An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

  Francois Hollande

  Home, School, Done

  "French president's plan to write off homework draws criticism", www.foxnews.com. December 03, 2012.

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• I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

  Penn Jillette

  Government, Done, Censorship

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

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• When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

  Penn Jillette

  Religious, Real, Muslim Extremists

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

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• I'm the true definition of a workaholic.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Workaholic

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• I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

  John Keats

  Wise, Wisdom, Pride

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.803, e-artnow

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• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

  Val Kilmer

  Watches, Looks, News

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• I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

  Christopher Lasch

  Our Society, Sides, Arguing

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• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Defense, Conviction, Flexible

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• I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.

  Hugh Laurie

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Hugh Laurie Puts Blues In The House". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 18, 2013.

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• That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Government, People

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• You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Government, Obamacare

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• The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Grace, Topics

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• I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Insanity, Different, Results

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• Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Meaningful, Self, Filters

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• Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Nike, Powerful, Reality

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• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

  Andre Maurois

  Hands, Style, Hallmark

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Invasion

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