#definition

Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....] Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#verbosity #equality

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#believe #definition #does #even #high

When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one. ↗

— Tim Reid

#being #culture #defines #definition #determine

Duty is what one expects from others. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#duty #life #life

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

#apt #author #because #comment #consider

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#find #get #out #proper #real

Globalization is not just about changing relations between the ‘inside’ of the nation-state and the ‘outside’ of the international system. It cuts across received categories, creating myriad multilayered intersections, overlapping playing fields, and actors skilled at working across these boundaries. People are at once rooted and rootless, local producers and global consumers, threatened in their identities yet continually remaking those identities. ↗

— Philip G. Cerny

#definition #globalization #change

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#inspirational #faith

Webster’s—the original high definition entertainment.
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #high-definition #humor #original #webster-s

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. ↗

— Milton Berle

#wordplay #men