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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#energies #just #people #prescribe #two

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative. ↗

— Jesse Helms

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads. ↗

— Reed Hastings

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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

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When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. ↗

— John Irving

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No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things. ↗

— Frank Knight

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