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• What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.

  Paul Driessen

  Weed, Animal, Air

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• Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.

  Dana Gould

  Use, Littles, Crime

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• Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

  William Styron

  Self, Way, Painful

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Space, Giving

  "Religion and the Rebel". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 309, 1957.

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• The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

  Janet Malcolm

  Powerful, Cameras, Instruments

  Janet Malcolm (1981). “Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography”

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• The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Civilization, Events

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• If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame.

  Amber Heard

  Cute, Beautiful, Sexy

  "The Rum Diary - Amber Heard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

  J. L. Austin

  Diction, May, Facts

  "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 195, 1979.

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• The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.

  William James

  Thinking, Attention, Lasts

  William James, (2013). “The Principles Of Psychology -”, p.233, Read Books Ltd

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• Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms

  Gregory Bateson

  Communication, Winning, Doe

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.201, University of Chicago Press

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• The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

  Fred Brooks

  Essence, Essentials, Abstract

  "No Silver Bullet". Book by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.

  Maimonides

  Intelligent, Details, Generations

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.6, 1190.

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• On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).

  Gustave Courbet

  Funeral, Meditation, Criticism

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• Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the universe itself and all the beings within it are ultimately going.

  Eben Alexander

  Brain, Important, Body

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Independence, Needs

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• Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.

  Walter E. Williams

  Degrees, Doe, Purpose

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• Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.

  Bill Crawford

  Team, Organization, Diversity

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• What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, States, Left

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• God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world.

  Louie Giglio

  Jobs, People, World

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• The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

  Terence McKenna

  Community, Peculiar, Substance

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• Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

  John Stuart Mill

  Doe, Social, Interest

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.170

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• I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Girlfriend, Party, Believe

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.

  Kim Smith

  Challenges, Want, Sometimes

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