Defined Quotes

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The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For… — Stuart L. Hart
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as… — Barbara Kingsolver
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. — James A. Garfield
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans,… — James A. Michener
In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere… — Leonardo da Vinci
Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result… — Leonardo da Vinci
One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come… — William Carlos Williams
A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy. — Brian Tracy
My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment. — Roman Abramovich
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made… — Augustus William Hare
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. — Alain de Botton
The most important element in a picture cannot be defined. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine. — Jeff Koons
The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined… — Bernie Sanders
You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably… — David Stern
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive… — Asger Jorn
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential… — Max Planck
Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul. — James Van Praagh
I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in. — Amanda Marcotte

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