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#definitions

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There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.


Frank Dobson


#definitions #manhood #west

One's 'thing'--(1) A point of personal interest; a hobby, sport, or avocation that succinctly defines a person. (2) A brief coupling of words used to evoke someone's personality in a small-talk setting: Billy's thing used to be soccer; now it's masterbation. (3) A laconic summation of one's character and interests used for the purpose of categorization and judgement. See also 'What do you do?


Joshua Braff


#funny #funny

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.


H.L. Mencken


#definitions #ethics #humor #humor

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.


Stephen King


#humor #anger

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 wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#clever #definitions #homely #i #i wish

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

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?


Margaret Thatcher


#democracy #leadership #politics #leadership

Avant-garde is French for bullshit


John Lennon


#definitions #art






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