#definition

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

— Walter Lang

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Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

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That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. ↗

— Maya Lin

#approach #definition #individual #individual lives #lives

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

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

— Peter McWilliams

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With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition. ↗

— George Michael

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Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

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And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

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