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No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,… — George Carlin
One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me;… — Wilma Mankiller
To define is to kill. To suggest is to create. — Stephane Mallarme
Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic… — Lisa Kleypas
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor
Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice… — Condoleezza Rice
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. — Cynthia Ozick
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code… — Ayn Rand
If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldnâ€™t start with race; I wouldnâ€™t start with blackness; I wouldnâ€™t start with gender; I wouldnâ€™t… — Bell Hooks
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. — Oprah Winfrey
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think. — Wendell Berry
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing… — Albert Camus
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch… — Julian Barnes
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in… — Mahatma Gandhi
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone… — Jean-Paul Sartre
It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith. — Brandon Sanderson
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at… — Barack Obama
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name.… — Toni Morrison
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather,… — Michelle Obama
The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded… — Sarah Dessen

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