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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
The Two Cultures (1959) -
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
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Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
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I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
Middlesex (2003) 217 -
If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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