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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

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.

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

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.

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

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

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

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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.

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

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

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

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

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.

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

The definition of love is giving.

I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within it the promise of a sensuousness that (without generalizing) at least I, as a human being, am drawn to.

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

The best definition I can find of faith is the dependence upon the veracity of another. The Bible definition in the 11th chapter of Hebrews is, 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' In other words, faith says amen to everything that God says. Faith takes God without any ifs, If God says it, Faith says I believe it; Faith says amen to it.