To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
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When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
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Don't overwrite description in a story - you haven't got time
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The phrase, Seeing is believing, is often explained as, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. In truth, our minds work in the reverse. An accurate description of human perception is: I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it
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It is really nice to see that we won't have any penalties. All of our coaches understand the importance of this. It is part of their job description now to meet these academic progress numbers.
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Some of the conservative activists would prefer to have a sitting judge who has taken conservative positions on all their favorite issues. I'm sure the president considered some people like that, but that was never his goal or his job description.
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Mr. Hochberg was receptive to the idea because he was the one who said he would put a museum of some description in the barn, but he would leave it the commission's decision what would be an appropriate use of the space.
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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He described the handle with amazing description for someone who didn't own the knife.
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You have to go into the job description before you start hiring. There's a tendency that people worry about 'who' rather than 'what' too quickly.
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We're thinking that they are potentially related. A canvass of the area produced that there was an SUV speeding out of here. The people heard one gunshot and a vehicle speeding out of here. Were thinking it may be related. It's a similar description.
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The manuscript was only known from a brief description in a catalogue in 1890 and it has never before been seen or described by Beethoven scholars.
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This is an amazing find. The manuscript was only known from a brief description in a catalogue in 1890 and it has never before been seen or described by Beethoven scholars. Its rediscovery will allow a complete reassessment of this extraordinary music. Sotheby's has been very fortunate in selling a large number of Beethoven manuscripts in recent years, including a previously unknown composition, but this is even more interesting. It is a completely lost autograph of a major work and such a visually exciting and extraordinary manuscript.
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I am convinced that his description of his treatment in Syria is accurate.
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Both those kids come from great programs. Every coach in America wants to recruit winners and kids with stable backgrounds, and certainly CB West and North Penn fit that description.
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Some of these bathrooms defy description,.. There's no way to go into a judge and a jury and describe what you're seeing.
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