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My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

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I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

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This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#back #college #college education #delaware #delaware state

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

— Marcel Duchamp

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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

#contention #described #forthright #george #longer

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

— Ashley Montagu

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