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Tag Name "Described" (461)

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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
W. S. Gilbert
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I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
Bob Woodward
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When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.
Tori Amos
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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
Herbert Croly
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LISP has jokingly been described as the most intelligent way to misuse a computer. I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
Edsger Dijkstra
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The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.
Gao Xingjian
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No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.
Paul Theroux
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Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.
George W. Bush
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[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a radical insurgency by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.
Noam Chomsky
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Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
Richard Carlson
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I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or explained, that love. I didnt know anything before I had him, and I havent learned anything since I lost him. Everything that isnt loving a child is just for show.
Haven Kimmel
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Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.
Diablo Cody
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Samuel Butler
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Someone once described “Christian Secularism” as the assumption that there is nothing at all to life except a pilgrimage between the maternity ward and the crematorium, and that it is within that span that Christian concern must be exercised because that is all there is.
Alan Watts
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...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier and when the poet self dies, the person dies.
Susan Sontag
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As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.
George Galloway
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
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Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.
Croft M. Pentz
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
Alan Parker
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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
Noam Chomsky
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I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
Cassandra Wilson
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff
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