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The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.
Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.
We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.
Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.
With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.
The endless definitions for feminism are exhausting. It's this, it isn't this, it's only this if you're this, etc.
Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.
I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.
People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.