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To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. ↗

— David Cameron

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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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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

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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

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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

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

— Doris Lessing

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