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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Drucker

Leadership, Making, Results

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Beautiful, Nothing

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
Barack Obama

Best, Future, Done

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker

Money, Business, Easily

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan Watts

Yourself, Self, Everything

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken

Faith, May, Belief

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

Doubt, Secret, Fanatic

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
Mitt Romney

Government, America, Driven

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir

Woman, Human, Said

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell

True, Saying, May

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom, May, Obstacles

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

Computers, Nice, Rich

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Number, Fascism, Victims

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love, Wisdom, Philosophy

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Politics, May, Word

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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Impossible, Possible, Beyond

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Simone Weil

Door, Public, Tyranny

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Dave Barry

Person, Old, Advice

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt

Soul, Grace, Expression

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt

Soul, Expression, Harmony

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky

Life, Strength, Character

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager

Life, Love, Friendship

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey

Whole, Complex, Object

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Dave Barry

Money, Art, Personal

Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.
Jerry Saltz

Life, Give, Light

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis Morissette

Beauty, Women, Live

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis Morissette

Beauty, Women, Standard

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
Thomas Szasz

Human, Eat, Rule

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Andrea Dworkin

Marriage, Time, Practice

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.
Tom Felton

Hate, Character, Nothing

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