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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James A. Baldwin

Heart, Dangerous, Himself

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes

Someone, Enough, Read

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, War, Attitude

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco

Morning, Art, Living

I'm the true definition of a workaholic.
Kim Kardashian

True, Workaholic

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Wisdom, Same

I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me.
Michael J. Fox

God, Put, Expression

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering

Time, Stupid, Done

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand

Art, Design, Simple

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.
Rush Limbaugh

Success, Government, Possible

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift

True, Words, Style

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
Tom Stoppard

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Society, Cannot

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
Mark Knopfler

Change, Freedom, Reality

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Stephen F. Lynch

Different, Same, Again

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy

Time, Enough, Worth

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

Real, Tell, Ability

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks

Wish, Prayer, Merely

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Ezra Pound

Guess, Lunatic, Surrounded

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper

Marriage, Law, Protect

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II

Work, Peace, Victory

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time, Poetry, Place

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar

Science, Facts, Statistics

For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.
Simon Mainwaring

Social, Marketing, Needs

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.
Simon Mainwaring

Good, Live, Powerful

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
Henry A. Wallace

Money, Power, Deceitful

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah Arendt

Political, Become, Makes

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
Saul Williams

Wrong, Balance, System

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Linda Ellerbee

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.
Eric Clapton

Family, Business, Everyone

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