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Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and… — Huston Smith
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm… — Arthur Koestler
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by… — Anthony Holden
I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood. — Marilyn Manson
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading… — Rick Strassman
Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination… — Walter Scott
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is… — Michael N. Castle
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
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so… — Isaac Newton
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear… — Albertus Magnus
Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable… — Faraaz Kazi
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track… — Al Gore
Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of… — Tara Brach
Love cannot be described. It must be tasted. — Unknown Author
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are… — Ibn Hazm
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors. — Robin Boyd
If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18). — Douglas Wilson
Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that… — John Cassian
It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task.… — Cy Twombly
Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. — Alain de Botton
I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek. — Richard Armitage
Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit… — Banksy
A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On… — Alan Ryan
Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at realizing there was… — Darrel Ray
Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described… — Judith Butler

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