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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
The future
Ray Bradbury

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Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.
Journalism and Journalists
Craig Brown

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Action
Albert Einstein

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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Truth
Albert Einstein

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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Miracles
Elbert Hubbard

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Tact and Tactfulness
Abraham Lincoln

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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Vision
Malcolm Muggeridge

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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Science and Scientists
Karl Popper

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Argument
Matthew Prior

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Character
Jean Paul Richter

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Enjoyment
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Happiness
Henri B. Stendhal

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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
Influence
Henry David Thoreau

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Work
Mark Twain

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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Frankness
Tennessee Williams

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun