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#definitions

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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗


— James A. Baldwin


#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. ↗


— Tryon Edwards


#adhere #controversies #define #definitions #ended

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than. ↗


— Mark Knopfler


#change #control #definition #definitions #freedom

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ↗


— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


#behind #body #comes #concern #conform

contiguous, adj. I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I knew I had to explain. "When I was a kid, "I had this puzzle with all fifty states on it--you know, the kind where you have to fit them all together. And one day I got it in my head that California and Nevada were in love. I told my mom, and she had no idea what I was talking about. I ran and got those two pieces and showed it to her--California and Nevada, completely in love. So a lot of the time when we're like this"--my ankles against the backs of your ankles, my knees fitting into the backs of your knees, my thighs on the backs of your legs, my stomach against your back, my chin folding into your neck--"I can't help but think about California and Nevada, and how we're a lot like them. If someone were drawing us from above as a map. that's what we'd look like; that's how we are." For a moment, you were quiet. And then you nestled in and whispered. "Contiguous." And I knew you understood. ↗


— David Levithan


#definitions #love #relationships #love

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ↗


— Ambrose Bierce


#devil

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence ↗


— H.L. Mencken


#love #imagination

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. ↗


— Hillary Clinton


#different #diplomacy #open #part #self-interest

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem. ↗


— Ernest Istook


#definitions #different #fundamental #marriage #need

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


— George Bernard Shaw


#drinking #life






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