#defines

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship. ↗

— John R. Allen

#afghan #afghanistan #conduct #day #defines

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#bad #character #choose #defines #gift

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. ↗

— Tony Blair

#defines #i #interdependence #live #long

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#invest #our time #time #who #you

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift. ↗

— Allyson Felix

#been #blessed #define #defines #faith

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#courage #defines #destroy #doing #freedoms

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#country #defines #exercise #fact #founding

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#always #am #character #chess #convinced

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#assemblage #before #defines #how #ideas

It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since. ↗

— Theresa May

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