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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

~A. R. Ammons

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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

~Aaron Allston

Topics: Definition Elect Free Pay Receive Whether You

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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.

~Aaron Levie

Topics: About Cloud Definition Enterprise Happening Just Kind Legacy Literally Market More Now Opportunity Right Software Systems Think Transition You

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Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.

~Abbas Kiarostami

Topics: After Change Corrected Definition Digital Ever Every Feel Film Find Go Going Idea Immediately Improved Know Original Original Idea Out Photography Result See Shots Unfinished Want Whether Worth You Your

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Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

~Abby Wambach

Topics: American Being Championship Come Definition Different Different People Having Literally People Team Think Together Win World World Championship I Think

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Act Agreed Definition Destroyer Drives Him His Liberator Liberty Plainly Same Sheep Shepherd Thanks Throat Which While Wolf

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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

~Adam Carolla

Topics: Beauty Definition Outside Very

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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Always Any Culture Definition Eccentric Fascinating Hip-Hop Me Secretive Way Were Writers

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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.

~Adam Mckay

Topics: Accurate Also Any Bought Changed Corporation Corporations Created Defined Definition Exclude Fascism He Mention More Said State Until Up Word Would

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By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.

~Adena Friedman

Topics: Businesses Danger Definition Risk

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