450 Quotes About Definitions

  • Author Stephen F. Lynch
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    I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

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  • Author Timothy Leary
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    Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

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  • Author Anthony de Mello
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    A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

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  • Author Benoit Mandelbrot
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    In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

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  • Author Bharati Mukherjee
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    My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

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  • Author Brit Marling
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    Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

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