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I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. -- James A. Baldwin
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions. -- Yitzhak Rabin
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. -- Alvin Toffler
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. -- Tryon Edwards
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. -- Russell Lynes
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. -- Paul Rand
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than. -- Mark Knopfler
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
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. -- Toni Morrison
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything. -- Idries Shah
Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use -- Karl Popper
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill. -- Idries Shah
Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest. -- Idries Shah
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. -- Smiley Blanton
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. -- Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine. -- Idries Shah
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets. -- Hal Duncan
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. -- Ayn Rand
Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows. -- Ernst Mayr
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions. -- S. I. Hayakawa
Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy. -- Leopold Kronecker
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms. -- Isaac Newton
There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West. -- Frank Dobson
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car. -- Larry Hagman
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. -- Jonathan Swift
My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are. -- Jimmy Kimmel
There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it. -- Melody Beattie
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. -- Jonathan Swift
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. -- Andrew Wiles
People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success. -- Tony Levin
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James A. Baldwin
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
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. -- Audrey Hepburn
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. -- Evan Esar
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -- G. H. Hardy
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. -- Edward Levi
I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy. -- Vera Farmiga
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. -- Ron Paul
I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field. -- Hope Solo
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. -- Ambrose Bierce
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid. -- Charles Kettering
If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business. -- Marc Benioff
Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next? -- Anne Sweeney
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there. -- Jay Griffiths
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. -- Saul Bellow
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type. -- Martin Filler
People who are comfortable with very clear boundaries and group definitions don't like the instability and ambiguity of people who say they are more advanced Christians, or they don't have to do what the bishop says. -- Elaine Pagels
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. -- George S. Patton
When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. -- Ravi Zacharias
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. -- Jon Meacham
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one. -- Eckhart Tolle
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable. -- Gertrude Stein
Odd that we think definitions are definitive. -- Larry Wall
Mankind is a science that defies definitions. -- Robert Burns
The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines. -- Camille Paglia
Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me. -- Saul Bellow
There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. -- Hillary Clinton
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes. -- Nathanael Emmons
The battle for the world is the battle for definitions. -- Thomas Szasz
The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Whatever beliefs and definitions you hold will seem to be true. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions. -- W. Edwards Deming
One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names. -- Ming-Dao Deng
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. -- Donald Knuth
I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions. -- Dave Winer
Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism. -- Rick Perlstein
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. -- Dennis Potter
If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions. -- Starhawk
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous. -- Samuel Johnson
Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. -- Wallace Stevens
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. -- Oliver Heaviside
Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt! -- Israelmore Ayivor
He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality. -- Peter L. Berger
Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt...! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. -- J. Philippe Rushton
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. -- Patricia Hill Collins
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions -- Anatol Rapoport
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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
One of the definitions for "mad" is "wild"; I'm certainly all for wild as opposed to domesticated. -- Sharon Gannon
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. -- Trevor Dunn
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political. -- Susan Sontag
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them. -- Jeff Cooper
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. -- Toni Morrison
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. -- Rob Bell
There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand. -- Mary E. Pearson
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. -- Eckhart Tolle
For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions. -- Hani Furstenberg
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying. -- Jim Broadbent
Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none. -- Kathryn Minshew
There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be. -- Gina McKee
If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women. -- Mahatma Gandhi
People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them? -- Mizuki Nomura
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. -- Liz Stanley
Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.

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