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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. ↗

— Alfred Edward Housman

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It's so tedious that everyone must be defined. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. ↗

— Ted Nelson

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I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#better #better sense #define #describe #get

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? ↗

— Garrett Fort

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I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are. ↗

— Lee Scott

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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ↗

— Paul Gallico

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There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. ↗

— David Letterman

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Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as. ↗

— Meg Ryan

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