#define

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am. ↗

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ↗

— John Dewey

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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up. ↗

— Vince Vaughn

#feel #scared #something #step #up

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#invest #our time #time #who #you

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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It's not easy to define poetry. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#easy #poetry

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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