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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
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
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
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
The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.
— Nicola Sturgeon
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 yesterdaythat 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
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
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
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
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
All theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.
— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza