Quotes with definition

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  • Anthony Robbins My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Harvey Fierstein 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
    American actor, writer and singer (1954 - )
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  • James Baldwin No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James Baldwin Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Aldous Huxley Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alvin Toffler One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Deming Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
    We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Jonathan Swift Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Saul Bellow 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
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Albert Camus Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Socrates The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Asa Gray The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Billy Graham The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Assata Shakur 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.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Caitlin Doughty The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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