"A picture is never anything but its own…" — Roland Barthes

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• Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. — Mayim Bialik
• The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to… — Lord Chesterfield
• When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to… — Amy Chua
• The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself. — Hillary Clinton
• I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call… — Leonard Cohen
• What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos
• Charm is that extra quality that defies description. — Alfred Lunt
• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be… — Lawrence Hargrave
• But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be… — Humphry Davy
• Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is… — Alexander Hamilton
• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and… — Fritjof Capra
• More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on… — Jonathan Kozol

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