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The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for… — Don Kates
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find… — Ignatius Loyola
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness.… — Camille Paglia
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in… — Leonardo da Vinci
They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't… — Zuheir Mohsen
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the… — Deacon Jones
But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their… — Peter Cosgrove
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed,… — Patrick Dodson
...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full… — Freeman Dyson
It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing. — Unknown Author
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to… — Amy Hempel
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only… — Guy de Maupassant
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give… — Anton Chekhov
I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. — Flannery O'Connor
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's… — Unknown Author
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:… — Janet Fitch
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns… — Lynn Steen

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