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«The greatest reward is to know that one can speak and emit articulate sounds and utter words that describe things, events and emotions.»
Author: Camilo Jose Cela
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Communication
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articulate, articulated, articulating, describe, emit, emits, emitted, emitting, utter
«That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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bunch, bunches, describe, empiricist, empiricists, got, problem, science, trying, unimaginable, whole, wonder
«The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.»
«The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain»
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Philosopher)
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caught, caught up, describe, described, description, descriptions, mountain, the Mountain
«The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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alternative, bearable, bred, breeding ground, close set, closing, day in day out, describe, doom, dot, dots, dotted, immolate, incapable, inexorably, postulate, postulates, preaches, presently, Prophecies, prophet, randomly, situate, situated, situating, spill, The Prophet, The Trap, torches, trap, tremendous
«Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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charming, consummate, consummated, consummating, deceptive, describe, destructive, novel
«The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
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consuming, deliberately, describe, immature, searching, self-sufficiency, solely, some other, sufficiency, this method
«The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
bother, constructing, describe, existing, mathematical, model, usual
«Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.»
«The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Knowledge,
Progress
| Keywords:
allows, describe, detail, enabling, evolution, grasp, in detail, more and more, world view
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