#definition

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ↗

— George Will

#experience #hope #know #marriage #over

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. ↗

— James Bovard

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I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

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I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#definition #gym #i #life #me

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#dictionary #look #news #tv #up

My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#definition #definitions #different #other #people

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page. ↗

— George Saunders

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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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