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Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack. — John Eliot

By definition, fifty percent of every large group that let's anyone join is below average. — Jack J. Lee

... nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings. — Enrique De Heriz

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. — Christopher Hitchens

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself. — Jacques Monod

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature. — Mary Parker Follett

According to my definition, a number is computable if its decimal can be written down by a machine. — S. Barry Cooper

The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. — Matt Mullenweg

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks. — Brit Marling

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss

The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy. — Charles Platt

Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness. — Colleen McCullough

Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent. — Hermester Barrington

The only way to sustain this world economy is by changing its definition. — Toba Beta

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts. — Bill Veeck

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. — Richard Linklater

Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality — Kevin Swanson

It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead. — Jay Leno

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it. — Nicola Sturgeon

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound. — Michael Vito Tosto

British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism — Fareed Zakaria

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him. — Arsene Wenger

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. — Arthur Koestler

Every sound is by definition a stop, which is how we can hear it. — Anne Lamott

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived. — C.S. Lewis

digging for the truth, by definition, unearths things - and some things were safer left buried. — Christine M. Whitehead

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament. — David T. Dellinger

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts. — Charlie Munger

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison

I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow. — Ed Seykota

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. — Emile Durkheim

Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection. — Daniel Taylor

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time. — Peter F. Drucker

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that. — Ivan Stang

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. — Dario Argento

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition. — Pauline Kael

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work. — Brandi Carlile

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental. — Bill Hybels

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. — Candice Bergen

Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer — Sunday Adelaja

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. — G.H. Hardy

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. — Neal Boortz

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates

I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens. — Bruce Schneier

By popular definition, no one was less Orwellian than Eric Blair. — William Giraldi

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki — Richelle Mead

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. — Barry Sonnenfeld

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. — Alfred North Whitehead

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story. — Lauren DeStefano

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable. — Thomas Hoving

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress. — Douglas Coupland

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far. — Ronald Reagan

Scientific answers are not definitive: they are, almost by definition, the best ones that we have at any given time. Consider — Carlo Rovelli

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. — Philip Sidney

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism. — Che Guevara

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. — Emilio Estevez

All exceptional people are, by definition, exceptions to the norm. If we insist on being ordinary, we can never be truly extraordinary. — William Ritter

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157) — Piero Ferrucci

Life is stress by definition. — Rebecca McNutt

Laughter is by definition healthy. — Doris Lessing

Mediocrist (n.) A person of mediocre talents. Nobody wants to be mediocre, but someone has to be. In fact, by definition, most people are. Microphily — Ammon Shea

People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist. — Nouman Ali Khan

By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful. — Arianna Huffington

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday
that is, not innovating
is far more risky than making tomorrow. — Peter Drucker

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy. — R.C. Sproul

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. — Patrick O'Brian

Life, by definition, is never still. — Kurt Vonnegut

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not, — Kurt Cobain

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof. — Stephen King

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit. — Kevin Harrington

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure. — Mark R. Woodward

What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand. — Wayne Dyer

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. — Albert Camus

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar. — Silvio Berlusconi

You will never achieve a goal by definition unless you try. — Auliq Ice

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad. — Jose Bergamin

faith is an almost insurmountable barrier because it, almost by definition, makes itself unquestionable. — James A. Lindsay

To be alive is by definition messy, always leaning towards disorder and surprise. How — Krista Tippett

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James Baldwin

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
("Talking In The Dark") — Dennis Etchison

If a situation requires swearing to God it is - by definition - extreme. — Pam Houston

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. — Glen Duncan

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love. — Francis Chan

It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay. — Andrew Sean Greer

Life, by definition, is never still. Where is it going? From birth to death, with no stops on the way. — Kurt Vonnegut

The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position. — Monica Esposito

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home. — Francois Hollande

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage. — Steven Pressfield

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average. — James C. Collins

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved. — Jack Harlan

If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile. — Erik Von Markovik

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory. — R.C. Sproul

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. — Gore Vidal

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality. — Rob Lowe

All theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza