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What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
Rumi
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In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.
Austin Osman Spare
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The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
Richard Rorty
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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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My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.
Henri Nouwen
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An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
G. E. M. Anscombe
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It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.
George Washington
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Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
Christopher Lee
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Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.
Bing Crosby
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I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
Winslow Homer
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You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.
Rhonda Byrne
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All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
Gautama Buddha
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What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
Heinz von Foerster
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Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
C. S. Lewis
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
Carlos Castaneda
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
Lord Byron
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I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
Maria Sharapova
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Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
Beilby Porteus
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Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
Hugh Prather
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That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.
Sarah Silverman
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Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
C. S. Lewis
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
Anthony de Mello
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Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.
Thom Mayne
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Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.
Stan Smith
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The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.
Virgil Thomson
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A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
Gregory Chaitin
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I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.
David Duke
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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
Louisa May Alcott
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Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
Alan Keyes
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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Gaston Bachelard
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Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.
Ronald Coase
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One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
Dalai Lama
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What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
Tori Amos
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
Terence McKenna
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
John le Carre
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Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.
John Stuart Mill
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The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.
Janet Malcolm
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One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.
Max Gallo
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When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.
Bill Buxton