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Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.
Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.
I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
There are different definitions of love, and one of the most wonderful definitions of love is to allow somebody to be.
My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.
Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.
I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.
For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.
Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
Heard someone say children are god's gift to the world. What world are you referring to? And what's your definition of gift?
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom
I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.
I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.