#definition

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species. ↗

— Walter Lang

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Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

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Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

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Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

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Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

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