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• It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Giving, Logic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.76, Psychology Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

  Anne Taintor

  Hands, Firsts, Gone

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• Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. But what is critical to note here is that, however ambiguous our images, the universe itself remains whole and is manifestly not fracturing into schizophrenic shards. It is this tantalizing wholeness and the thing itself that drives physicists onward like an eternally beckoning light that seems so teasingly near. It is always out of reach.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Our World, Light, Wave

  "The Grandeur and Limits of Science". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 16, 2017.

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• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Home, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Mean, Acceptance

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• A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Albums, Singers, Generous

  "From the Archives: Kirsten Dunst Interviewed". Interview with Nathaniel Rogers, thefilmexperience.net. November 18, 2011.

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• Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Practice, Giving

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• My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

  George Washington

  Encouragement, Immigration, Use

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• We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humorous, Humanity, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.462, Modern Library

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• The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Observation, Left, Observers

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• In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ... I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Thinking, Mind

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

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• I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Coffee, Believe

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• Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my background. Cindy Kelley, who has been my writing partner on my novels, she works more on the prose side and the description side of the storytelling because, obviously, there's a lot more of that in a novel than in a screenplay. You only have up to 120 pages in a screenplay.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Writing, Pages, Firsts

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.

  Erik Wolpaw

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.

  James Madison

  Party, Passion, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Subjects, Objects, Enslavement

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• Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Science

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• Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

  A.J. Ayer

  Men, Good Man, Saint

  A. J. Ayer (1988). “Bertrand Russell”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

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• Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Expression, Talkers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2580, Delphi Classics

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• But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

  John Green

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.14, Penguin

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• I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal--or completely shattered.

  E. Lockhart

  Hate, Book, Character

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.19, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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