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A voice crack doesn't automatically define you as a bad singer. I've experienced it countless times, and yet here I am, thriving. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 6 months ago
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,” and they will define freedom out of existence. – Voltairine de Cleyre	added by Normando 7 months ago
The key to greatness comes with many pleasures but the ones you take define you because these are the ones you cannot leave behind. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by heathert.34240 7 months ago
Defy your confines; don't let confinements define you. – Aloo Denish Obiero	added by Aloo-Denish 8 months ago
Stress is a part of life, but it doesn't define us. How we navigate through it, learn from it, and grow despite it, that's where our true strength lies. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 9 months ago
The people we define as crazy just might be more sane than you and me. – Jodi Picoult	added by JokerGem 10 months ago
I embrace the honor of being called black, for within the ebony tapestry of my identity lies a crown of resilience, a testament to the majestic strength that resides within the human spirit. Black is not a mere hue; it is a regal symbol of endurance, a crown we proudly bear upon our heads as a reminder of the indomitable pride and unyielding spirit that define our existence.” – Christen Kuikoua	added by anonymous 1 year ago
What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it… What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few -- as we have learned to our sorrow. What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias... – Learned Hand	added by Normando 1 year ago
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process – Thomas Sowell	added by Normando 1 year ago
What I always stress is that bad things can happen to us, but they don’t need to define us, it goes back to understanding that there are things out of our control, and we’re really spinning our wheels when we try to control them. What we do have control over is the way we respond to it. – Leah Brogan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our message to candidates is define yourself or other candidates will define it for you and you’re not going to like their version of you, the ostrich strategy of burying your head in the sand is not going to work. – Katie Daniel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The ICJ advisory opinion will come at a the right time to help us define what loss and damage means [and] how it will work. – Ralph Regenvanu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m going on offense, some of these Republicans, they just sit back like potted plants, and they let the media define the terms of the debate. They let the left define the terms of debate. They take all this incoming, because they’re not making anything happen. And I said, ‘That’s not what we’re doing.’. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The reference I made to a woman’s ‘prime’ this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it, a woman’s age doesn’t define her either personally or professionally. – Don Lemon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our members respond to hundreds of calls over and over, without fail. One incident should not define the good work being done by these dedicated public servants and some have taken that position, unfortunately. – Tyre Nichols	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We suspected that there was a chronology to the northern Scandinavian gene pool, and it did indeed prove that a more recent influx of Uralic ancestry into Scandinavia define much of the northern gene pool, but if it is recent, it is comparatively so. For example, we know that this Uralic ancestry was present in northern Scandinavia as early as during the late Viking period. – Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Denying biological facts is not a winning issue, women across the political spectrum are tired of being silenced for demanding that our dignity and status be protected, and the voices of female athletes are among the most powerful. What happened in women’s NCAA swimming this year is the tip of the iceberg under the Biden Administration who continues to push radical policies and can’t even define a woman. – Penny Nance	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our position hasn't changed and how we are advising candidates after Kansas remains the same and that is : You have to go on offense and define your opponent's positions rather than let them define you. – Mallory Carroll	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Barnes is not nearly as known in the state as Ron Johnson, that is an opportunity for the Ron Johnson side... to really try to step in and define Barnes. – Charles Franklin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
For the true believer, it's not just the belief. It's that,' I define Joseph Ma Pierre based on that belief' and that's when it becomes very difficult to undo, at that stage, it becomes very dangerous( to argue) because then people view the threat to the ideology, the belief, as a threat to themselves. – Joseph Ma Pierre	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My expression is one of frustration, watching now for many years, in many ways predating the current climate and the current administration, the success of the right to define the terms of the debate, the success of the right to dominate the narrative... they're winning in ways that are alarming to me. – Gavin Newsom	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code. – Sandra Day O'Connor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The reason why I raise the points about freedom... is because Josh Shapiro has made this notion of freedom central to Josh Shapiro campaign, to me, it is a complete farce because what Josh Shapiro's really doing is saying,' I, Doug Mastriano, will define freedom on my terms and force you to live under those terms.'. – Josh Shapiro	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Etiquette is more than knowing how to use the right knife and fork, i define it as the ‘art of knowing how to treat other people.’ It's being mindful of how your behavior affects others. – Jacqueline Whitmore	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

A voice crack doesn't automatically define you as a bad singer. I've experienced it countless times, and yet here I am, thriving.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
6 months ago

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,” and they will define freedom out of existence.

– Voltairine de Cleyre

added by Normando
7 months ago

The key to greatness comes with many pleasures but the ones you take define you because these are the ones you cannot leave behind.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heathert.34240
7 months ago

Defy your confines; don't let confinements define you.

– Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
8 months ago

Stress is a part of life, but it doesn't define us. How we navigate through it, learn from it, and grow despite it, that's where our true strength lies.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
9 months ago

The people we define as crazy just might be more sane than you and me.

– Jodi Picoult

added by JokerGem
10 months ago

I embrace the honor of being called black, for within the ebony tapestry of my identity lies a crown of resilience, a testament to the majestic strength that resides within the human spirit. Black is not a mere hue; it is a regal symbol of endurance, a crown we proudly bear upon our heads as a reminder of the indomitable pride and unyielding spirit that define our existence.”

– Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
1 year ago

What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it… What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few -- as we have learned to our sorrow. What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias...

– Learned Hand

added by Normando
1 year ago

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process

– Thomas Sowell

added by Normando
1 year ago

What I always stress is that bad things can happen to us, but they don’t need to define us, it goes back to understanding that there are things out of our control, and we’re really spinning our wheels when we try to control them. What we do have control over is the way we respond to it.

– Leah Brogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our message to candidates is define yourself or other candidates will define it for you and you’re not going to like their version of you, the ostrich strategy of burying your head in the sand is not going to work.

– Katie Daniel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ICJ advisory opinion will come at a the right time to help us define what loss and damage means [and] how it will work.

– Ralph Regenvanu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m going on offense, some of these Republicans, they just sit back like potted plants, and they let the media define the terms of the debate. They let the left define the terms of debate. They take all this incoming, because they’re not making anything happen. And I said, ‘That’s not what we’re doing.’.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reference I made to a woman’s ‘prime’ this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it, a woman’s age doesn’t define her either personally or professionally.

– Don Lemon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our members respond to hundreds of calls over and over, without fail. One incident should not define the good work being done by these dedicated public servants and some have taken that position, unfortunately.

– Tyre Nichols

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We suspected that there was a chronology to the northern Scandinavian gene pool, and it did indeed prove that a more recent influx of Uralic ancestry into Scandinavia define much of the northern gene pool, but if it is recent, it is comparatively so. For example, we know that this Uralic ancestry was present in northern Scandinavia as early as during the late Viking period.

– Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Denying biological facts is not a winning issue, women across the political spectrum are tired of being silenced for demanding that our dignity and status be protected, and the voices of female athletes are among the most powerful. What happened in women’s NCAA swimming this year is the tip of the iceberg under the Biden Administration who continues to push radical policies and can’t even define a woman.

– Penny Nance

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our position hasn't changed and how we are advising candidates after Kansas remains the same and that is : You have to go on offense and define your opponent's positions rather than let them define you.

– Mallory Carroll

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Barnes is not nearly as known in the state as Ron Johnson, that is an opportunity for the Ron Johnson side... to really try to step in and define Barnes.

– Charles Franklin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For the true believer, it's not just the belief. It's that,' I define Joseph Ma Pierre based on that belief' and that's when it becomes very difficult to undo, at that stage, it becomes very dangerous( to argue) because then people view the threat to the ideology, the belief, as a threat to themselves.

– Joseph Ma Pierre

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My expression is one of frustration, watching now for many years, in many ways predating the current climate and the current administration, the success of the right to define the terms of the debate, the success of the right to dominate the narrative... they're winning in ways that are alarming to me.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.

– Sandra Day O'Connor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The reason why I raise the points about freedom... is because Josh Shapiro has made this notion of freedom central to Josh Shapiro campaign, to me, it is a complete farce because what Josh Shapiro's really doing is saying,' I, Doug Mastriano, will define freedom on my terms and force you to live under those terms.'.

– Josh Shapiro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Etiquette is more than knowing how to use the right knife and fork, i define it as the ‘art of knowing how to treat other people.’ It's being mindful of how your behavior affects others.

– Jacqueline Whitmore

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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