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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

...the definition of swiftboating is: producing irrefutable evidence that a Democrat is lying.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

Every act is an act of self definition.

Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

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

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.

I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.

The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others.