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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#after #alcohol #also #before #between

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret. ↗

— James Denton

#anything #because #city #described #each

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#around #critical #describe #distance #experience

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#cannot #completely #humility #minds #must

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#dream #feels #life #mathematician #mathematics

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#describe #emotions #ever #far #i

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest. ↗

— Iris Dement

#describe #honest #how #i #life

Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#described #i #i think #know #me

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

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