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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest. ↗

— Iris Dement

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Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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To describe happiness is to diminish it. ↗

— Stendhal

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Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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