"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works."
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"And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith."
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"There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood."
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"The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition."
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"As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable."
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"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand."
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"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."
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"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."
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"My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love."
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"To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement."
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"Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love."
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"We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women."
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"If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity."
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"Divorce is a game played by lawyers."
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"Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control."
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"The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality."
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"A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure."
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"If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that."
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"The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple."
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"The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy."
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