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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
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As a first approximation, I define ''belief'' not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
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As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
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As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
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Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
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I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.
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I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.
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