Quotes with description

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  • Freda Adler The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Oscar Wilde To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Callie Khouri To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Ben Okri We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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