#scribe

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#describe #like #love #much #nothing

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things. ↗

— Frank Knight

#describes #science #sense #static #things

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

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I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#anything #honest #i #me #seems

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#ascribe #being #bring #life #meaning

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#always #amount #any #band #describe

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#departure #described #hollywood #i #understood

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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