Definition
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They then have, as the second definition, skim, and next to that, they say "usage problem."
And I'm going to try to do my best to provide a definition, maybe by telling you a story that goes through some of the stuff I've been working on.
Yeah, I guess by definition, it's kind of computer music.
The word is "hail," and it has a great
definition
as well.
I'm talking about this definition, to greet or acclaim enthusiastically, which is how I think our words will be received if we stand on these four things.
It's very simple: Many thousands of years ago, we discovered that if we carried on doing the same things, we wouldn't die, because the things that we've done before by
definition
didn't kill us, and therefore as long as we carry on doing them, we'll be okay, and it's very sensible not to do anything new, because it might kill you.
I cite the
definition
given by the Algerian sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas, and she says that fundamentalisms, note the "s," so within all of the world's great religious traditions, "fundamentalisms are political movements of the extreme right which in a context of globalization manipulate religion in order to achieve their political aims."
percenters that you hear about and read about, and I am by any reasonable
definition
a plutocrat.
And that brings me to my
definition
of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them do.
We've been around as Homo sapiens — that's a rather generous definition, sapiens — for perhaps a quarter of a million years, a quarter of a million.
That experience in itself is the
definition
of hope.
The last point I want to observe about this mindset, the idea that only people who are doing something wrong have things to hide and therefore reasons to care about privacy, is that it entrenches two very destructive messages, two destructive lessons, the first of which is that the only people who care about privacy, the only people who will seek out privacy, are by
definition
bad people.
That is the
definition
of a biological computer, interacting by brain activity and achieving a motor goal.
And I thought, her
definition
of empowerment was very strange.
Based on this definition, here's how I'm defining money shame: "the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed, and therefore unworthy of love and belonging, based on our bank account balances, our debts, our homes, our cars and our job titles."
That depends on your
definition
of forever!
So needless to say, this is not a solution for everybody, and this actually is part of the problem, because if you think about communication, by definition, it involves having someone to communicate with.
He told her the very
definition
of being prime Was that with only one and himself could his heart divide, And she was the one he wanted to give his heart to, She said she felt the same and now she knew the films were half true.
We have a pretty inclusive
definition.
However, after five decades of research, there's no strong consensus on the definition, the cause, the treatment, or even the existence of PMS.
For many years, because there was no standardization in the
definition
of PMS, when psychologists tried to report prevalence rates, their estimates ranged from five percent of women to 97 percent of women, so at the same time almost no one and almost everyone had PMS.
The near universal
definition
of a good woman is one who is happy, loving, caring for others, and taking great satisfaction from that role.
And it's a beautiful definition, because if you're wealthy, you might want the wealthy to have more money, the poor to have less.
You see, the Rawls definition, the Rawls way of looking at the world, the blind tasting approach, takes our selfish motivation out of the picture.
And we can ask all those questions because there has been a revolution in our understanding of what a habitable planet is, and today, a habitable planet is a planet that has a zone where water can stay stable, but to me this is a horizontal
definition
of habitability, because it involves a distance to a star, but there is another dimension to habitability, and this is a vertical dimension.
But the general point here is important: if you create a really powerful optimization process to maximize for objective x, you better make sure that your
definition
of x incorporates everything you care about.
But the
definition
of infidelity keeps on expanding: sexting, watching porn, staying secretly active on dating apps.
So because there is no universally agreed-upon
definition
of what even constitutes an infidelity, estimates vary widely, from 26 percent to 75 percent.
And that's essentially the
definition
of design: making life better and providing joy.
And so as I contemplated all of this and looked at what was happening, I suddenly realized that there was a paradox that was emerging inside of me, and the paradox was this: in all of those sermons that I preached decrying the violence, I was also talking about building community, but I suddenly realized that there was a certain segment of the population that I was not including in my
definition
of community.
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