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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. — John F. Kennedy
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse… — James A. Baldwin
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks. — Pat Barker
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynastyâ€”and, by which definition, a philosopherâ€”dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that… — Tom Stoppard
I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light,… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead. — Jay Leno
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. — Che Guevara
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed… — Orson Scott Card
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition. — Bell Hooks
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark. — Wallace Stevens
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are… — Erica Jong
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. — Ann Patchett
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles… — Audre Lorde
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children — Markus Zusak
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than… — Albert Schweitzer
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am… — Aldous Huxley
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of,… — Joyce Carol Oates

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