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When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

~Christopher Poole

Topics: Almost Definition Disappointed Generally Me Meet Normal People Pretty Simultaneously Sociable Some Surprised

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My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

~Claire Scovell Lazebnik

Topics: Anything Badly Because Behaved Book Confuses Definition Definitions Friend Get Good Good Guy Gray Guy He Him His Instance Me Needs Often Right Right And Wrong Rigid See Son Spectrum Thinker Try Upset Very Wrong

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When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.

~Clara Shih

Topics: Against Along Beginning Bigger Definition Early Else Established Everyone Everyone Else Except Further Hard Hard Work Hours In The Beginning Long Long Hours More Nothing Odds Own Requires Resources Shortcuts Startups Succeed Swim Talents Than Upstream Win Work You Your

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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.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Almost Almost All Big Body Cannot Complicated Data Definition Descriptions Diseases Healthcare Occur Our Systems Yield

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Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Ambassador Bodies Definition Foreign

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A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

~Clyde Edgerton

Topics: Act Adult Becoming Behave Being Being Happy Chances Child Definition Fruitful Full Guiding Happy Her His Increasing Lead Might Secure Thus Ways Working Young Young Adult

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Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

~Clyde Edgerton

Topics: Arrogant Because Been Children Cool Courage Daily Definition Endurance Grind Influenced Like Men More Much Necessary Painful Patience Physically Rather Small Small Children Sometimes Stronger Stuff Than Tolerance World

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I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Come Could Define Definition Easily Genes Just Life Molecular Nature Refuses Set Thought Up Would

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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

~Dan Brown

Topics: Acceptance Be True Cannot Definition Faith Imagine Prove True We Cannot Which

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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.

~Dan Rather

Topics: Above American Conservative Conserve Constitution Constitution Of The United States Debate Definition First First Of All Law Someone States Tradition United United States Want Wants Well Who Word

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