Quotes About Definition

if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

It is also difficult to define the boundaries within which we judge inequality.

of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing. She can't

defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.

But intelligence is not just a matter of acting or behaving intelligently. Behavior is a manifestation of intelligence, but not the central characteristic or primary definition of being intelligent. A moment's reflection proves this: You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding. Ignoring what goes on in your head and focusing instead on behavior has been a large impediment to understanding intelligence and building intelligent machines

CHRIS What's art, Holling Is a Davinci art Dada art If you wrap up the whole Reichstag in toilet paper, is that art HOLLING Well, I can't give you a complete definition, but I think it would be something Maurice would be willing to give good money for. CHRIS Yeah, well, you're starting to scare me cause if that's art, then I got to get a whole new gig.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

She's way more of a quote unquote hero than I am.

A creator who no longer remembered the creation: Wasn't that one definition of a god?

Metamorfosis! ¿Qué sería "metamorfosis" sin el diccionario…? Un montón de letritas negras.

There is also a purely musical definition of blues: a progression of chords consisting of four bars of the tonic (I), two bars of the subdominant (IV), two bars of the tonic (I), a bar of the dominant seventh (V7), a bar of the subdominant (IV), and two final bars of the tonic (I).

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

If faith were rational, it wouldn't be—by definition—faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch.

I got letters saying, I detest everything about you, and I got letters saying, You have written my bible. Imagine if I'd tried to create a definition of myself based on any of these reactions. I didn't try. And

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure…I'm lonely…I'm a failure…I'm lonely…) and we become monuments to them.

Linking the national identity with race is not unique to the United States. National identity always requires an other to define it. But this country has linked its identity with race to an extraordinary degree, matched only by two other settler states: South Africa and Israel.

I'm an engineer for the same reason anyone is an engineer: a certain love for the intricate lives of things, a belief in a functional definition of reality. I do believe that the operational definition of a thing—how it works—is its most eloquent self-expression.

Another very serious mechanism of identification is found in language. A) Thus we have only one name, say 'apple' for the: (a)un-speakable, un-eatable event or scientific process; (b) the un-speakable but eatable abstraction of low order, the object; (c) the un-speakable and un-eatable 'mental' picture, or higher order abstraction, on semantic levels; (d) and for a definition on verbal levels.

This formulation is regarded by the IHRA as a 'non-legally binding' working definition.

The draftees of the working definition acknowledged its somewhat loose and vague wording, and thus added a number of 'examples' 'which may serve as illustrations'.

In 2018 the British Labour Party found itself embroiled in controversy inside and outside the party when it attempted to amend the examples—not the working definition, it must be said—to ensure that legitimate criticism of Israel was not prevented by adopting the definition and all its examples. After lengthy debate the Labour Party has now accepted in full all the examples as well as the working definition.