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They presented a description of the world to all of us which was... by Frederick Lenz

They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.

Frederick Lenz
rama description world

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

Hugh Prather
outside-world description world
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by general... by Iris Murdoch

We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

Iris Murdoch
description world

Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
description memoir scholar
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of de... by Janet Malcolm

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

Janet Malcolm
description cameras powerful
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. by Jane Austen

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Jane Austen
description elsewhere
To me, self-description is a calamity. by Jasper Johns

To me, self-description is a calamity.

Jasper Johns
description self-esteem self
We live in a description of reality. by Jean Houston

We live in a description of reality.

Jean Houston
description reality

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

Jean-Luc Godard
description speed century

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

Jim Rowe
description form language
The description is not the described. by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The description is not the described.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
semantics description
Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds impl... by Jim Butcher

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Jim Butcher
renewal description fairs
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observa... by John Archibald Wheeler

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

John Archibald Wheeler
observation description left

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

John Fowles
description chains
For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of pol... by John le Carre

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

John le Carre
description conflict political

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
description may long

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
description social doe

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

Jose Padilha
description measurement people

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

Juliet Stevenson
description jobs people
A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous... by Kirsten Dunst

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

Kirsten Dunst
description albums singers
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