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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.


Doris Lessing


#am #being #described #had #having

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.


Charles Lindbergh


#distance #landscape #life #like #live

People read me but they don't subscribe.


Jay London


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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.


Augustus Baldwin Longstreet


#cannot #describe #fights #followed #frantic

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.


Wangari Maathai


#colonialism #describe #i #legacy #moving

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.


David Mamet


#back #beliefs #could #describe #exercise

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.


Murray Gell-Mann


#assigned #been #being #described #every