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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
Anthony Trollope
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All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice meditation with their eyes closed.
Frederick Lenz
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Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school get a job, any kind of a job get married before having children and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits.
Walter E. Williams
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As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies I loved spoofing things.
Noel Wells
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London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
Peter Ackroyd
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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
Isaac D'Israeli
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[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition, as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.
Jay Michaelson
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Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
Paul Mellon
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Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
Tim Cahill
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My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.
Anchee Min
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Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants, and owners of businesses. Of course, there were also slaves and poor among believers. By at least the second century, there were also believers from upper levels of Roman society.
Larry Hurtado
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It's really hard to make a good film it's really, really hard. So, the director's very important, and a character that can be described with more than one or two adjectives, maybe with contradictions. Contradictions are always good because that's truthful.
Rachel Weisz
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The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
Abe Ajay
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People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
George Carey
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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
Peter O'Toole
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Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an independent agency operated by selfless public servants striving to fine-tune the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat.
Thomas DiLorenzo
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats
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It was at Little Lodge I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
Winston Churchill
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The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.
Charles Krauthammer
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We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
William Henry Ashley
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If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.
Jeremy Corbyn
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The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.
Frank A. Vanderlip
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
Ashley Montagu
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Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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