#defined

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. ↗

— Charley Pride

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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations. ↗

— Cavett Robert

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Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations. ↗

— Cavett Robert

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It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. ↗

— Albert Bandura

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Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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