In this post, you will find great Definition Quotes from famous people, such as Michael Seibel, Elon Musk, Graham McTavish, John Boehner, Penn Jillette. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary’s definition of nerd: ‘one whose IQ exceeds his weight’. I’m also keen on the same Urban Dictionary’s definition of geek: ‘the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult‘. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
If there’s any definition to being perfect, you’re perfect at being yourself.
Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.
Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we’re open-minded people, and I think we’re almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.
I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you’re watching a movie.
I think the definition of a book is changing.
The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.
The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.
The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition business must run things more efficiently.
Change in both the generations is there as society changed. But love is love, the definition of love has not changed.
Biggest man law – be a man. Simple: be a man, definition of being a man is being a man. And don’t let your woman turn you into a little boy.
About my books, that’s all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn’t that after all the definition of marriage?
Until we take seriously God’s definition of the church and stop just ‘having church,’ we will not see transformation in our society.

Asylum under the traditional definition doesn’t necessarily include people coming here for economic reasons, but I think one of the biggest things we need to do is expand legal immigration so people can do that legally.
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
You had a generation of women, of which I’m part, where it was a stigma to be associated with feminism; there was a backlash. Now you have a generation that is clearly embracing feminism because, at the end of the day, the definition of feminism is just equality.
There’s no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
I’m a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.
It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject.
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
I don’t know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
There is that definition of leadership that says, ‘Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t have done because you’ve made them believe it’s the right thing to do.’ And a great speech can do that.
By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore‘s Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi’s Code.
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry.
People’s faith, people’s beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I’m so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it’s liquid, anyway.
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.
I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don’t go down dark alleys, but if you’re making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone’s definition of an all-American girl – attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul?
People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it’s none: there is no definition of perfection.
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
Well, first of all, I don’t want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.
To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well.
Good eyebrows give your face definition.
For some people, the definition of who is and who isn’t an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners, the milk of human kindness, enjoyment in the good things in life, and love of good food.
The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I’ve never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There’s still magic in the idea, so I’d rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.
Everyone has a different definition of what they find sexy, so why do we so often get given one version of what sexy is time and time again?
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
We thought it was our duty to go and warn people of the consequences of their sins, and I understood that to be the definition of loving our neighbour.

What’s the definition of terrorism? It’s to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.
The entertainment industry at large has pretty much given away high definition to consumers. They haven‘t really charged a premium for it on television. That makes consumers more likely to buy Blu-ray but less likely to pay a premium for it.
Jesse Helms has historically been identified as an enemy of Mexico; therefore, by definition, anyone who opposes him is a friend of Mexico.
When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don’t go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It’s an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that’s just my definition.
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that’s the definition of a good pitcher.
I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people – troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit hole of his characters’ souls, was our generation‘s anti-star and the chameleonic film actor of his age.
If you embrace ‘positive thinking,’ you are – by definition – spurning ‘negative thinking.’ So it’s as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side – the ‘positive thinking’ side.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
If you think about the market that we’re in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that’s happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don’t think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.
I don’t think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
Laila Ali is not my definition of the best.
Definition of love differs for different humans. If I will talk about me then its something that makes you forget about everything else.
A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.
If anyone wants to know what the definition of ‘dope‘ means, it’s: ‘Definition of Public Enemy.’
For me, to be in a place where I’m on the ‘favourite‘ list of top directors I like, that’s being number one. There is no other definition to me. It’s not money; it’s not how many songs you’re seen in or how many clothes you’re changing in the film.
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
As human beings, we anthropomorphize way too much. God’s not a person. God, for me, is a power that lies outside the definition of time and space.
Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that’s not the conventional definition of hiding.
Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.
By definition, a Special Counsel is charged with investigating particular potential crimes, not all potential crimes wherever they may be found.
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it’s a euphemism for sarcasm. ‘I’m not being sarcastic; I’m being ironic.’ No, you’re not. You’re evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it’s pretty irritating on my skin, so I like having the definition a beard gives.

I’ve always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it’s the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.
By definition, conservatives struggle with change.
Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise money, buy and sell each other, reorganize, implement new systems, conduct complex transactions, and so forth.
I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, ‘Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?’ And I’m thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We’re the definition of ‘back.’ We’re the definition of ‘rebirth,’ of ‘renaissance.’
That’s the definition of a teammate, being together, being there for your teammate.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of ‘health insurance,’ which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.
I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I’d ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there’s a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.
We are proud of our ridiculousness. That’s what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that’s my definition of Belgium.
Everyone’s definition of healthy (and delicious) is different.
The definition of ‘morbid‘ is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there’s no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
Some white people are privileged, some aren’t. Some black people are, some aren’t. It’s strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it’s making a generalization – a negative one – based on skin color.
This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else’s expectations or lack of expectations.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

I think patriotism, by its very definition, is love of country. But we seem to have become a country where the highest thing we’re reaching for is tolerance.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
Nintendo is an entertainment company, but I think we need to broaden the definition of entertainment.
Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
I think success has a different definition for everyone.
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.
The definition of comedy is ‘unsafe space’ – you can’t control what people laugh at.
I don’t like science because I don’t think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It’s a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.
There is no definition to love. It is a feeling.
Our definition of the alt-right is younger people who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly anti-establishment.
He wasn’t, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They’re trying to stop you spending money and you’re trying to not spend money, but at the same time we’re great artists.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

By definition a sequel can’t be original. So you’ve got to figure out what worked the first time around.
I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say – a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.
What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is ‘intelligent’ the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of ‘normal life‘, mean nothing.
It’s the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn’t get what they wanted.
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of ‘dilemma‘ is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there’s such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.
I’ve never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
From a moral point of view, it is wrong… to smear or stereotype minority communities, to pretend or give credence to the idea that the actions of a minority within a community are somehow representative or the fault of the majority of members of that community. That is the very definition of bigotry.
The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.
If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
When I hear other people’s stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my ‘Encyclopedia of Human Experience.’ The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.
Definition is the death of discovery.
To me, the definition of faith is to fear nothing.
People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Noir‘ has been talked about a great deal in the discussion of ‘The Black Dahlia,’ but De Palma’s palllete couldn’t be less monochrome; it’s the very definition of garish.
The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‘humble,’ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.
My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people’s definitions are.
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don’t put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, ‘Do you believe?’ I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out.
Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life.
My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There’s no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it’s like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down – there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
My definition of a good hotel is a place I’d stay at.
Someone yelled at me once, ‘You never write about yourself.’ People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I’m everywhere, just like we all are.
I can’t define myself. And I’m really happy about this, that I’m not able to make a definition of, even of my work.
If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
I have a weird definition of family; it’s not the same as everyone else‘s.
Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets the legal definition of fault. On the other hand, it has increased the bargaining power of the person who is willing to leave.
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.
The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance.
Somebody’s going to have to come up with a definition of what the alt-right is.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can’t name it, it means you don’t recognize it.
Reducing the damage from waste might require expanding the traditional definition of waste – not just as old-fashioned garbage, but as a result of wild inefficiency in all kinds of systems, which often results in emissions of greenhouse gases, among other problems.

My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
The definition of an ‘operating system‘ is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.
For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari’s pirates.
If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
My definition, the definition that I’ve always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one’s own military legion – in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I’ve also learned that this loyalty to one’s corps travels both ways: up and down.
By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body.
There is a lot of stuff we can’t control, but it is completely in our power to decide what the definition of what a good job is. That’s up to us.
What I’m doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It’s intended to be open to interpretation.
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is – if you are not around that environment, then you’ll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It’s another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
My definition of a producer is ‘the man with the dream.’
Marriage happened very late for me. It took place at a time, when my definition of companionship had really narrowed down.
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture ‘War’ with ‘Terror’ in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without ‘legitimate authority’ to wage war.
No one can change the definition of what behavior is presidential because that definition fundamentally depends on what our form of government requires, not on what one individual prefers.

Thandie has no interest in race. She thinks it’s just a Freudian concept by definition, and there’s more genetic difference between a Kenyan and a Ugandan than there is between a Kenyan and a Norwegian… she believes entirely that nationality is nothing but accident.
I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage.
Because of ‘Line Of Duty’s proper adherence to police procedure, by definition we end up doing some very long interrogation scenes which are difficult to learn, and require lots of concentration to sustain them across shooting.
It’s bad poetry executed by people that can’t sing. That’s my definition of Rap.
I try to be professional; I try to be on time. I don’t take anything I have for granted. That’s my definition of success.
I think I was always this person. If you see my early work, my first TV show called ‘Shikast’ and a lot of ‘Sea Hawks.’ I think I was dealing with a misplaced definition of success.
I’ve never understood the use of vulgar language, but the definition of ‘risque’ is open to interpretation. I suppose I did many things in my shows that could be considered risque… at the time… right up until my 90s.
By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
Many men think they’re playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word ‘loser.’
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.
I have my own definition of God, but I believe God is whatever you want Him to be.
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
I do think I’m country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.
Seriously, I was the wrong fit at ESPN. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.
A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it’s deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.

I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That’s why I like TV more.
Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’ This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
There’s something sexy about a man or a woman when they have definition in their shoulders and their arms. When I’m at a restaurant, whether it’s a man in a sleeveless top or a woman, I can’t help but look.
Words have not only a definition… but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
Women in figure skating, like in every other industry, are expected to conform to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Unhealthy habits are often encouraged to promote a thin frame, and young girls idealize a skewed definition of ‘fit.’
For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they’re larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They’re provocative, assuming they grapple with – to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.
As a pop artist by definition, you have to learn to adapt.
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

I don’t think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don’t are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.