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“I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.”

Form Differences Pure Islam Defined Submission

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.”

May Hours Week Tasks Defined Astronaut

Author:Mae Jemison

“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.”

Should Whole Term Liberty Democracy Source Debate Russia Defined Unending

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.”

World Needs Real Problem Night Social Situation Theory Defined Real World Need A Change Social Problems

Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.”

Believe Reality Prove Argument Satisfaction Defined Believe In God Plato

Book:The Echo of Greece

Source: The Echo of Greece

“Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.”

“The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.”

Art Stage Entertainment Defined Great Men

Author:Robert Morse

“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”

Levels Practice Higher Ideals Dare Defined Capability Affirmation Higher Level Negation Positive Affirmations

Author:Alexander Haig

“There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.”

People Kind Persons Kids Three Football Clothes Defined Three Things

Author:Paul Weller

“I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.”

Knows World Believe Mean I Believe Term Leader Economy Doubt Influence Modern Weapons Adults Nuclear Russia Factors Defined Nuclear Weapons Modern World Defence Nuclear Power World Power

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.”

Wish Known Defined Vacation

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.”

Technology Communication Defined Intimate Location Iphone Macs Convergence

Author:John Sculley

“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”

May Mean Given Cases Available Defined Faculty Rhetoric Persuasion Observing

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.”

Book Light Quiet Computer Machines Defined Telephones Fax Fax Machines Ephemera Workspace

Author:Maira Kalman

“Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.”

Film White Quality Conflict Western Mood Setting Settings Defined Genre Tone Subtle Gray Conventions Gangsters Noir Film Noir

Author:Paul Schrader

“I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don't tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don't have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I'm gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don't wanna be defined.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Mean Beautiful Girl Embrace Sexy Lifestyle Defined Bad People

Author:Nicki Minaj

“My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.”

Years Artist Democracy Function Defined Eras Apartheid

Author:Athol Fugard

“Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.”

Fashion Defined

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.”

Ideas Universe Strange Defined

Author:John Green

“Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.”

World Humans Together Successful Revolution Organization Transformation Structure Defined Working Together Transition Repetition Successful Organizations

Author:Bill Drayton

“Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.”

Want Believe School Social Media Students University Social Media Defined Brands Influential Robust Recruit

Author:Amy Jo Martin

“Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.”

Together Connections Defined Atoms Chemist

Author:George M. Whitesides

“For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment. Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.”

Years Firsts Persons Nations United Rights Citizens Speech Court Defined Corporate Corporations Amendments Free Speech Ruling First Amendment Takeovers Citizens United

Author:John Bonifaz

“Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.”

Knows Has Beens Seems Wise Judgment Capacity Defined Biodiversity

Author:Jonas Salk

“I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by thatWe always try to find similarities in life, no matter what it is so they're going to try to put you in a box with other African-American quarterbacks - Vick, Newton, Randall Cunningham, Warren MoonThat's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.”

Trying Matter America Speak Goal Talent Prove No Matter What Boxes Defined African American Never Change Newton Similarity Quarterback Cunninghams

Author:Robert Griffin III

“The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.”

Men Crime Criminals Commit Defined Feds

Author:Yoshida Kenko

“A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity.”

Masters Keys Projects Bases Stress Currents Productivity Lists Defined Stress Free

Book:Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced”

Defined

Author:Christopher Logue

“Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.”

World Life Is Left Black White Easier Defined Black And White Powerless Ambiguity

Author:Amy Plum

“Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.”

Ifs Thinking Real Self Matter Accepting Atheism Awareness Materials Self Awareness Burden Positive Atheism Defined Explanation Explaining

Author:Victor J. Stenger

“You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme.”

Want Believe Body Government Would Be Christian Law Nations Community Scary Supreme Defined Acknowledge Pagan Our Community Decree Christian Nation

Author:Randall Terry

“A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.”

Needs Enemy Groups Identity Defined

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined, and I have had a ball doing it.”

Ifs Dream Hours Common Balls Definitions Defined Live Life Unexpected Endeavor Phenomenal Definition Of Success

Author:Wayne Dyer

“If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Kind Pay Theory Mathematics Defined

Author:Peter Thiel

“Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.”

Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers

“Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.”

Way May Sometimes Whole Effects Dangerous Definitions Manage Defined Stunning

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”

Ifs Knows May Talking Knowledge Subjects Effects Pure Mathematics Defined Propositions Assertion True Knowledge

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.”

Whole Universe Numbers Limits Infinite Edges Defined Infinity Atoms Void

Book:Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

“In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.”

“Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.”

May Values Process Quality Conditions Elements Defined Decay

Author:Johan Huizinga

“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”

Men Years Two Home Lasts America Past Used Father Parent Term Generations Skills Authority Hundred Defined Primaries Making Money Masculinity Involvement Over The Past Fathering

Author:Frank Pittman

“Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy: it is shared withthe other guys. It is a code of conduct that requires men to maintain masculine postures and attitudes (however they are defined) at all times and in all places. Masculinity includes the symbols, uniforms, chants, and plays that make this the boys' team rather than the girls' team.”

Men Mind Play Guy Girl Attitude Boys Team All Time Symbols Defined Code Uniforms Masculinity Masculine Vary Other Guys Posture Single Guy

Author:Frank Pittman

“A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.”

May Lines Liberty Revolution Lovers Defined Monarchy Protestants Settlement Few Words

Author:David Hume

“A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.”

Way Humans May Littles Ideas Values Natural Morality Solutions Technique Defined Natural Science Human Values

Book:The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons

Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons

“There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.”

Film Literature Defined Handful Heroines Haskell

Author:Molly Haskell

“The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.”

Giving Literature Written Food Office Defined Sponsorship Noblemen

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a suburban President. A President whose senses have been defined by the suburbs, where lakes and public baths mutate into back yards and freeways, where walking means driving, where talking means telephoning, where watching means TV, and where living means real, imitation life.”

May Mean Has Beens Real America Black President Talking Tvs Walking Driving Senses Defined Lakes Imitation Yards Baths Suburbs Freeways Future Of America

Author:Arthur Kroker

“Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.”

Wells Has Beens Defined Small Things Benevolence Politeness

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.”

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

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