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This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#believe #deaths #described #differently #each

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. ↗

— Ken Follett

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A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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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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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. ↗

— David Cameron

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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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Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#dark #described #oppressed #those #us

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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