Descriptions Quotes
106 quotes by 98 authors
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Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the…
— Jane Austen
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to…
— George Bernard Shaw
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All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.
— Deepak Chopra
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People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is…
— Paul Hawken
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and…
— Albert Einstein
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that…
— John Shelby Spong
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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For…
— Anton Chekhov
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Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the…
— Peter Singer
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...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)...
— F. M. Scherer
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The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,…
— James Madison
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By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every…
— Noam Chomsky
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Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.
— Mario Batali
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Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell…
— Michael Ruhlman
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The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But…
— J. G. Ballard
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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as…
— Ann Radcliffe
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The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
— Louis E. Boone
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In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished,…
— Don Berliner
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All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
— Gautama Buddha
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Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.
— Albert Einstein
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