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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.

We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications. I can't verbalize what I am working on: to me, it is many-layered by definition; it is what is more important, what is more true.

Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie.

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am.” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.

I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

With bisexuality, there's so much out there in terms of what that means and there are so many definitions, and it's about finding out what's right for you.

When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays...

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Truth by definition excludes.

So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these.

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal by definition. If they were legal they wouldn't need to be covert.

AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

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.

My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.

To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.

As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

If you're happy, that's probably the most important thing. Everyone probably has their own definition of success, for me it's happiness. Do I enjoy what I'm doing? Do I enjoy the people I'm with? Do I enjoy my life?

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.