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Source: The Enlightenment of the Whole Body: A Rational and New Prophetic Revelation of the Truth of Religion, Esoteric Spirituality, and the Divine Destiny of Man

“Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.”

People Humanity Hatred Defined Fanatics

Author:William J. Clinton

“These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.”

“Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.”

Desire Defined Desirable Erotic Liberated Dependency Sexiness Liberated Woman

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Have a defined mission with clear goals and timelines. I still trust the staff, with as little oversight as possible. Do things to show them that their time is as valuable to you as it is to them. Don’t be afraid to ‘fly solo.’”

Littles Stills Shows Goal Clear Valuable Missions Defined Staff Solo Oversight Timelines Clear Goals

Author:Pete Olson

“Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.”

May Government Form Belief Sides Defined

Book:Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals

“I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.”

People Needs Wells Bigs Together Sides Deals Roles Effects Believer Defined Firm Unexpected Working Together Thread Knots Linear Side Effects Leadership Roles

Author:Rands

“A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.”

May Clear Style Design Defined Consistent

Author:Fred Brooks

“The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.”

Roles Military Understood Defined Controlled

Book:Under Heaven

Source: Under Heaven

“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.”

Shows Jobs Tvs Defined Tv Shows Never Ending Full Time Jobs

Author:John Hodgman

“Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.”

Needs Four Ugly Sentences Defined Idiot Length Minimum Maximum Seventeen Punctuation

Author:Richard Hugo

“I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.”

Thinking Way Should Pressure Defined Punk Orthodoxy Defying Paving

Author:Shepard Fairey

“It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.”

Humanity Interesting Emotional Defined Strife

Author:Ian MacKaye

“I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.”

Thinking Real Body Defined

Author:Tessa Thompson

“We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.”

Ifs World Art Important Ideas Term White Greatness Civilization Tradition Excellence Males Rate Tricks Defined Artistic Distinction Denied Great Art Elitist Second Rate

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.”

Knows States Facts Law Lying Term Activity Authority Concerned Defined Principal Great Author

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.”

Thinking Looks Interest Party Republican Defined Wealthy Republican Party

Author:Bob Herbert

“Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.”

Ifs Want Doe Existence Defined Nothingness

Book:The Ethics of Ambiguity

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity

“I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.”

Thinking Needs Seems Comfortable Definitions Defined Categories Distrust Finite

Author:Artie Shaw

“When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.”

Remember Universe Fronts Asking Who You Are Defined Barriers Reminding Remember Who You Are

Author:Christine Ebersole

“I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.”

Source: Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

“Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers”

“I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business [entertaining], love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.”

People Trying Names Walks Doors Who You Are Defined Entertaining

Author:Cedric the Entertainer

“My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.”

Way Writing War Wanted Parent Periods My Family Died Profound Defined Affected Grandfather My Grandfather Father Died Grandfather Died

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.”

Ifs Should Mean Humanity Survival Fundamentals Absurd Defined Submission

Author:Kristina Schroder

“Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.”

Knows Needs Action Clear Greater Policy Responsible Defined Chiefs Target Cia Covert

Book:On the Brink: An Insider's Account of how the White House Compromised American Intelligence

Source: On the Brink: An Insider's Account of how the White House Compromised American Intelligence

“I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.”

Ifs Want Ends Depends Jokes Drawing Defined Narrative Cartoon Punchlines

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.”

Thinking Made Girl Fun Sports Athlete Quitting Defined Muscles Unattractive Being Made Fun

Author:Serena Williams

“Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.”

Beautiful Interesting Style Standards Defined Submit Elegance Georgia Stay True Anna Chic Allure Standards Of Beauty Frida Georgia O Keeffe

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.”

Should Trying Enough Answers Mistake Genius Function Errors Defined Data Statistics Thinker Glimpse Flawed Accuracy Right Answers

Author:Kathryn Schulz

“I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Able Used Girl Bits Kindness Divine Deserve Mercy Obvious Defined Flaws Giver

Author:Susan Meissner

“Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know what innovation is - at least in some sort of qualitative way - but what does one have to do with the other?”

Thinking Knows Way Doe Natural Innovation Defined Gas Mechanic Selection Procedures Genetics Natural Selection Algorithms Qualitative

Author:David Edward

“The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is colored by this reality.”

Self Facts Problem Reality Process Simple Issues Position Source News Defined Journalism Witness Journalist Dependent

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“TV and film has defined my entire life.”

Film Tvs Defined

Author:Azita Ghanizada

“I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.”

People Feels Defined

Author:Nicki Minaj

“The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.”

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