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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy. ↗

— Paul Simon

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I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. ↗

— John H. Speke

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In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa. ↗

— John H. Speke

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. ↗

— Jack Schmitt

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Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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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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You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

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