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My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.
My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.
E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed
There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.
all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.
The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?
The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
...the definition of swiftboating is: producing irrefutable evidence that a Democrat is lying.
Somebody who is unique - and this will get me into trouble - by definition cannot be replaced.
I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.
My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.