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• Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

  C. S. Lewis

  Energy, Sin, Holy

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Jobs, Ice, President

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• Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.

  Bing Crosby

  Light, Comedian, Ability

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

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• Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Normal, Fitting

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

  Stephen Hawking

  Goal, Humanity, Desire

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• An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

  G. E. M. Anscombe

  Giving, Phrases, Given

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• Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Flying, Pilots

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Jobs, Fats

  "Gosh, I've got quite a lot of clothes on today" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2006.

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• ...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary exchanges is surely not their commonalities under physical description. A natural kind like a monetary exchange could turn out to be co-extensive with a physical natural kind; but if it did, that would be an accident on a cosmic scale.

  Jerry Fodor

  Knowledge, Law, Interesting

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• A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.

  Gayl Jones

  Stars, Civilization, Names

  Gayl Jones (2016). “The Healing”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• My job description is... being enthusiastic.

  Dhani Harrison

  Jobs, Enthusiastic

  "Dhani Harrison Talks New Band, Beatles Video Game" by Gary Graff, www.billboard.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.

  Frank Lampard

  Book, Reading, Ipads

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• I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Jobs, Ideas, Missing

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• Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Frustration, Indulge In, Desire

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Drama, Landscape, Narrative

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Book, Journey

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.262, M-y books ltd

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• In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

  Niels Bohr

  Nature, Real, Essence

  Niels Bohr (2011). “Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays with an Introductory Survey”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained very few individuals, I succeeded in finding in two of them certain remarkable and suspicious cells containing pigment identical in appearance to that of the parasite of malaria. As these cells appear to me to be very worthy of attention ... I think it would be advisable to place on record a brief description both of the cells and of the mosquitos.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

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• I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because it's inside, it's dark, and so they don't see anything. I don't think I've ever yet, in any of my books, described a landscape. There's really nothing of the kind in any of them. I only ever write concepts. And so I'm always referring to "mountains" or "a city" or "streets." But as to how they look: I've never produced a description of a landscape. That's never even interested me.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Book, Writing, Dark

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• I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

  Antony Beevor

  Half, Dozen, Archives

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• I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

  Sue Miller

  Grandmother, Thinking, Diaries

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• Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Jobs, People

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• And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Jobs, Writing, World

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• A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

  Gregory Chaitin

  Computer, Sequence

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• Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.

  Steig Larsson

  Jobs, Matter, Talent

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