Defined Quotes

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The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom,… — George W. Bush
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being.… — Mildred Blaxter
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual… — Rene Dubos
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up… — Stedman Graham
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative. — Steven Johnson
I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre.… — Dwayne Johnson
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis)… — Richard Shusterman
We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we havenâ€™t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event… — Dick Cheney
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. — Charles Petzold
Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you… — Italo Calvino
I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my… — Geoff Dyer
Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved. — Harry Lorayne
When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable. — BrenÃ© Brown
The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined… — Albert Mohler
I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth… — China Mieville
Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal. — Charlton Laird
The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly… — Peter Farb
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity. — Pablo Antonio Cuadra
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my… — Black Francis
I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation… — George Bernard Shaw

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