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  In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Someone yelled at me once, ‘You never write about yourself.’ People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I’m everywhere, just like we all are.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

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  The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are.

  Chogyam Trungpa

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• There’s a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother’s face and the mother’s joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, ‘What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?’

  Susan Sullivan

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• Definition is the death of discovery.

  Tom Shadyac

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• That seems to be the definition of ‘novel’ for me: a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.

  George Saunders

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• I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I’m not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn’t.

  Diane Sawyer

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• But only ‘rich’ people by definition have the ‘extra’ money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that ‘extra’ money away – and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

  Terry Savage

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• Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

  Dennis Potter

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

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• Personally, I don’t like the term ‘success.’ It’s too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It’s usually someone else’s definition, not yours.

  Ichiro Suzuki

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• My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

  Peter Gay

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• My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I’ve never lost a match.

  Arlen Specter

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• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

  Fred Brooks

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• And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• I don’t think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

  Tom Stoppard

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• By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

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• We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

  Gijs de Vries

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• What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

  Gertrude Stein

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• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it’s one of the most charming things about them.

  Germaine Greer

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