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“Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.”

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... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

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Language is also a place of struggle.

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I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

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When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who…

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The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is…

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Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

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But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if…

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The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

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Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to…

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my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Clare Boothe Luce

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He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that…

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My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

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Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul…

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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

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