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"Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected to your environment on a local scale, but also to yourself - whether you can operate from something beyond the definition that others might place on you."
"Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed."
"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage."
"Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it."
"Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get."
"There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable."
"These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth."
"Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy."
"The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage."
"E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word."
"I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in."
"If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness."
"The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society."
"Home is the definition of God."
"The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is."
"The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman."
"It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous."
"And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based."
"My definition of fake news is a content-like object that is a story, an article, a video, a tweet that has been fabricated, completely invented out of thin air, intentionally for the purpose of misleading."
"Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me."
