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• Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, Order, Things In Life

  Dennis Prager (2009). “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Damage Is Done, Giving, Reverence For Life

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

  Liv Tyler

  Beauty, Beautiful, Spirit

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• Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

  Gore Vidal

  Life, Running, Native American

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 17, 2010

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• The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

  Andrew Wiles

  Science, Sensual, Problem

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intelligence, Organs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2459, Delphi Classics

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• By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

  Jason Bateman

  Inspirational, Smart, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

  Rita Dove

  Community, Gone, Spirit

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

  Alan Perlis

  Frustration, Frustrated, Computer

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• I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

  Robert Delaunay

  Care, Take Care

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• My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Self, Action

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• It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Success, Pain

  'The Idea of a University' (1852) 'Knowledge and Religious Duty'

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• A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

  Henry Adams

  History, Want, Equilibrium

  Henry Adams (1920). “The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma”

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• One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

  Northrop Frye

  Believe, Adventure, Mind

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2000). “Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks, 1982-1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World”, p.313, University of Toronto Press

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• Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

  John Thorn

  Retirement, Reality, Play

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• Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Aristocracy, Inspired

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• Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that in the end it destroys itself, it's so committed to evil and it's so committed to hatred and cruelty that it becomes suicidal. My definition of it is the surplus value that's generated by totalitarianism. It means you do more violence, more cruelty than you absolutely have to to stay in power.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Suicidal, Mean, Evil

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Thinking, White, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.

  Ridley Scott

  Disappointment, Names, Evil

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Views, Facts, Groups

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.

  Paulo Freire

  Mean, Violence, Excess

  Paulo Freire (2013). “Education for Critical Consciousness”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

  Randy Johnson

  Baseball, Successful, Intelligent

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• A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

  Anuj

  Crowns, Definition Of Leadership, Persons

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• Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Time, Men, Discipline

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• Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.

  Rhonda Britten

  Hurt, Fear, Self

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.98, Penguin

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