#definition

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. ↗

— Elgin Baylor

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Avant-garde is French for bullshit ↗

— John Lennon

#definitions #art

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#affirmative #affirmative action #definition #i #know

misgivings, n. Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more. ↗

— David Levithan

#definition #love #relationships #courage

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #conviction #definition #faith

Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he’d be able to break through in the end. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#sysadmin #faith

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#humor #humor

Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you. ↗

— Irene S. Levine

#best-friends-books #definition #friendship #friendship

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courage #courageous #crazy #death #definition

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

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