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• The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

  Anthony de Mello

  Taken, Moon, Tasks

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• Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

  Anthony de Mello

  Used, Distortion, Mysticism

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.124, Image

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• The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mother, Atheist, Kings

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• What are you? (a Daimon) Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed. I kill, you die. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Dark, Giving

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• The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhism, Reality, Doctors

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• The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Should, Treats

  Peter Singer (1986). “Applied Ethics”, p.220, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Hypothesis, Temporary

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• I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Two, Wish

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• Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!

  Paul Billheimer

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Beautiful, Artist, Drawing

  Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask (1997). “History of My Life”, p.112, JHU Press

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• I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Character, Thinking, Scott Fitzgerald

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• One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Vision, Conquer, Glances

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume”, p.327

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• Life a life of Spiritual Adventure. Much like a wild goose the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it's like to pursue the Spirit's leading through life.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Adventure, Thinking

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

  Nigel Rees

  Jobs, Doe, Workplace

  "In other words ..." by Nigel Rees, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

  Duane Michals

  Photograph, Insight

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• Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

  Max Weber

  Bears, Artistic, Type

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.151, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago!

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Years, Two

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• The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Humorous

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• In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

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• I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.

  Dave Barry

  Hate, Philosophical, Humorous

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• The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.

  John Stuart Mill

  Taken, Science, Being Real

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.200

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• For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Details, Wells

  Stephen King (2001). “On writing: a memoir of the craft”

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• Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

  Kevin Nealon

  Jobs, Unique, Grew Up

  "A Minute With: Kevin Nealon returning to stand-up comedy". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. August 1, 2012.

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• We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Explanation

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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