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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Louis Leakey

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Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

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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'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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My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. ↗

— Tim Robbins

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I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

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