#definition

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life. ↗

— Kay Granger

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If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask. ↗

— Richard Neal

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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Knute Rockne

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One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do? ↗

— Joshua Braff

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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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