"Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond."
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"My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism"
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"One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions."
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"My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be."
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"You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up."
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"Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition"
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"Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly."
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"The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?"
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"To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word."
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"The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing."
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"Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them."
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"Language is a form of organized stutter."
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"... life, by definition, is never still."
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"Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived."
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"There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve."
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"The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it."
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"The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball."
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"By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons."
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"If The Beatles represent the most successful version you can be of a thing, then by that definition The Rolling Stones are The Beatles of music, not counting The Beatles. John Lennon is The Beatles of The Beatles."
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"Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse."
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