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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

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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything. ↗

— Joan Jett

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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

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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

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