#describe

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

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As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married. ↗

— Ed McMahon

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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? ↗

— Toni Morrison

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. ↗

— Thandie Newton

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Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium. ↗

— Doug Ose

#broadcast #community #contemporary #currently #depict

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

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