Quotes and Sayings About Definitions
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
-- A. R. AmmonsSource : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
-- Abby SunderlandSource : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc
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SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.
-- Abdul Kalam -
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
-- Abraham VergheseSource : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
-- Adam McKaySource : "Citizens United : A Week Later" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.
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I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
-- Ajay Naidu -
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
-- Alan Bennett -
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
-- Alan Perlis -
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
-- Alan Rickman -
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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.
-- Alan Watts -
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.
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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.
-- Alber Elbaz -
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
-- Albert Brooks -
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
-- Albert Camus -
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
-- Albert Camus -
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
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For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it
-- Alek Wek -
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My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
-- Ally SheedySource : "Wheeler W. Dixon The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image". Book by Wheeler Winston Dixon, February 28, 2000.
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The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
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Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions
-- Anatol RapoportSource : "Various meanings of 'theory'". American Political Science Review, 52.04, 1958.
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Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
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Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.
-- Andre Ward