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635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure… — Jeffrey Bland
Dealing with the threat that Secretaries Albright and Cohen have described, the threat from Saddam Hussein, demands constant resolve by the United States and by… — Sandy Berger
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions… — Aberjhani
During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in… — Peter Golenbock
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,… — Peter Ackroyd
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code… — Ronald Reagan
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips.… — Dada Vaswani
In those early days of our relationship though, I always thought that she was so perfect that there had to be a catch. But there… — Ronan O'Brien
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can… — Marianne Williamson
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I… — Joan Didion
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more… — Robert Watson-Watt
A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and… — Henci Goer
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and… — Deborah Eisenberg
The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of… — Neil L. Andersen
Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both… — Ramakrishna
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational… — Georg Cantor
Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today… — Murray Bookchin
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens? — Wislawa Szymborska
People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is… — Mark Ryden
Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.' — David Blunkett
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the… — Jeremy Grantham
My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution… — Camille
Coconut oil has been described as the “World's Healthiest Dietary Oil”. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact — Bruce Fife
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward. — Rickie Lee Jones
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist. — Alan Parker

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