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Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

~Carol Bartz

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By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Allow Certain Certain Degree Definition Degree Demands Engage Events Fully Her Herself Inform Introspection Known Make Memoir Narrator Order Own Reader Self-Awareness She

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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

~Catharine Mackinnon

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Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?' I avoid the trap of easy definition.

~Cecil Taylor

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Jazz in the 1920s and '30s was dance music, teenage music for parties, for being wild and young. There's this punk feeling I really love. It was something so radical and different and new and not codified. People didn't have a definition of what they were doing.

~Cecile Mclorin Salvant

Topics: Being Dance Dance Music Definition Different Doing Feeling Jazz Love Music New Parties People Punk Radical Really Something Teenage Were Wild Young 1920S

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I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

~Chaka Fattah

Topics: Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Definition Know Some

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Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

~Charles Duhigg

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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.

~Charles Kettering

Topics: Definition Done Educated Fellow Knows Man Right Right Thing Sincere Still Stupid The Right Thing Thing Time Who You

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

~Charles Platt

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I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

~Charles Stross

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