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

— Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

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