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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it… — Benjamin Haydon
There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. — Kumi Naidoo
The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components… — James W. Pennebaker
What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order." — Kurt Vonnegut
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance… — William James
One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness. — William Feather
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy. — Bertrand Russell
My definition of sexy is not just using what you got from God, but also that you represent what you believe in. I don't want… — Jessica Biel
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining… — Warren Buffett
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. — Arthur Koestler
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come,… — Rita Dove
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone. — Arthur C. Brooks
... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited. — Shirley Brice Heath
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all… — Thomas Berry
These pages are not my confession; theyâ€™re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some… — Fernando Pessoa
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations… — Thomas Hobbes
Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be… — Kwame Nkrumah
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of… — Walter Pater
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a… — James Schuyler
I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a… — Pope Francis

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