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It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. ↗

— George Crumb

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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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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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I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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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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