"Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations……" — Grace Darling

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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… — Alexander Hamilton
• Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles… — Jane Austen
• A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people,… — George Bernard Shaw
• All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. — Deepak Chopra
• People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions,… — Paul Hawken
• By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a… — Albert Einstein
• If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then… — John Shelby Spong
• In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes… — Anton Chekhov
• Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if… — Peter Singer
• ...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)... — Unknown Author
• The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact… — James Madison
• By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural… — Noam Chomsky

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