Defined Quotes

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To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate… — James R Newman
Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available,… — Stanley Krippner
Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode… — Arthur Schuster
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our… — Lauren Slater
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors,… — Luke Rhinehart
Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will… — Miguel
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography. — Kate Braverman
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. — Yvon Chouinard
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of… — Johan Huizinga
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their… — Johan Huizinga
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. — Frances Wright
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence,… — Hakim Bey
Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential… — Mary Parker Follett
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. — Robert M. Pirsig
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement… — Nelson Goodman
The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to… — Fons Trompenaars
The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use… — Albert Mackey
I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do. — Mark Pincus
No one has really ever defined what a friend is. — Joseph Epstein
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined.… — Caroline Knapp

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