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• Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

  Rob Delaney

  Jobs, Lying, Politician

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• London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Smell, Light

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• One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

  Michael Emerson

  Two, Meditation, Feelings

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Health, Medicine

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• Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Practice

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• I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Character, Thinking, Worry

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• I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Jobs, People, Wanted

  "Juliet Stevenson: The power of storytelling" by Juliet Stevenson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

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• It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Reality, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.629

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• These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Buddhism

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• The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.

  Naomi Novik

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

  Criss Jami

  Ego Problem, Challenges, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'

  Breckin Meyer

  Hate, Reading, Character

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.

  Susan Sontag

  Plato, Book, Self

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.96, Macmillan

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• A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

  Paul Krugman

  Past, Technology, Years

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• Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

  Jose Padilha

  People, Measurement, Observation

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• Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!

  Paul Billheimer

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Song, Faithful, Intuition

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• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Two, Mind, Important

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• The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

  William Faulkner

  Beautiful, Women, Cat

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1973

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• In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.

  Samuel Johnson

  Night, Ideas, Darkness

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 90 (16 October 1769)

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• One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

  Dalai Lama

  Failing, Caught, Perceive

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• In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

  Paul Gauguin

  Suggestions, Done, Painting

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• A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

  Roland Barthes

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• We live in a description of reality.

  Jean Houston

  Reality

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