Defined Quotes

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R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than,… — Douglas Adams
A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night — James Patterson
How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build… — E. M. Forster
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, â€˜delusionsâ€™ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry… — Thomas Pynchon
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified… — Thomas Pynchon
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without… — Ron Paul
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is… — Emily Giffin
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts… — Audre Lorde
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. — Alberto Manguel
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you… — Sarah Dessen
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them. — Jonathan Franzen
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. — Karen Horney
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story… — Truman Capote
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! — Douglas Adams
Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges? — RomÃ©o Dallaire
We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become. — Tori Spelling
Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your… — John McCain
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. — Benjamin Disraeli

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