“The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.” IdeasFunnyNamesGroupsNewsDefinitionsMilesSpotsPostsThoughtfulPensNew IdeasEssaysBlogsBloggingMiles AwayBloggers Author:Steve Rubel
“Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are - they don’t get to change the definition.” PeopleMenBelieveMatterGroupsCrazyGayDefinitionsCrazy People Author:Benjamin Carson
“Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization.” WantActionIndividualGroupsMassUniqueOrganizationMethodDefinitionsActivePsychologicalPropagandaOrganizedManipulationTraitsPassiveParticipationEmployedExclusiveUnifiedPsychological Manipulation Author:Jacques Ellul
“What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made “Heal the World.” He could do that because he was golden. He was himself. He didn't have to try to be cool. Think about a lot of your favorite bands or groups. Would they make a song called “Heal the World”? No, because they are too concerned about their leather jackets. Ironically, they are probably wearing leather jackets because of Michael Jackson.” ThinkingWorldTryingMadeSongGroupsBandConcernedDefinitionsHealGoldenJacketsLeatherBeing CoolYour FavoriteHeal The WorldLeather JacketsFavorite Bands Author:Kanye West
“Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.” PeopleDoeMomentsFactsPurposeCultureFoundGivenBusinessRolesGroupsDefinitionsStupidityCorporateBatsWhalesDisdainCorporate Culture Author:Corinne Maier
“The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.” ShouldFactsViewsClearGroupsActivityConceptsBuiltDefinitionsDefinedDescribingProceeding Book:General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
“There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.” MeanFilmTermGroupsIndependentDefinitionsStudiosFilmmakingLiteralIndependent Filmmaking Author:Andrew Neel
“If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsTwoGovernmentActionEvilMoralGroupsGunConsequenceMajorityDefinitionsHungryTwo ThingsGood And EvilWant SomethingEvil PeoplePower Hungry Author:Stefan Molyneux
“That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.” StoriesShowsGroupsElementsSeriesDefinitionsNarrativeEpisodesContinuing Author:John Landgraf