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I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#being #boring #called #care #child

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#advanced #any #back #beliefs #derivative

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#big #big fan #describe #dress #fan

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#anything #been #describe #detective #detective stories

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contention #described #forthright #george #longer

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conviction #defense #definition #families #family

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#anything #cannot #described #equal #figure

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#arranged #basis #bride #described #marriages

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. ↗