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To describe happiness is to diminish it.


Stendhal


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How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape? And how was it decided the manner they would come together to form a word? 'Why is this so?' I demanded to know.


Theresa Breslin


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Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.


prixie


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The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.


Robert Anton Wilson


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Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.


Hernando Cortes


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I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.


Eric Bana


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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.


Simone de Beauvoir


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I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them.


Dick Cheney


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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.


W. Edwards Deming


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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.


Umberto Eco


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