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What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

~Aileen Lee

Topics: Company Describe Found Invest Thing Trying Us Which Winner Winners Word Work

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I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Ability Autobiographical Being Cool Describe Experience Figure Human Human Experience Interested Just Make Me Meaning Metaphor Mine Most Move Myself Not Interested Often Out Really Straightforward Tend Things Those Writing

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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

~Aimee Mann

Topics: Able Being Brain Control Describe Does Easier Everybody Feeling Horrible Kind Life Oh Oh Yeah Own Shame Something Stop Take Then Understands Yeah You Your

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You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Because Certain Certainly Come Describe Enough Evolve Far Illegitimate Impact Know Language Like Our Person Should Technology Think Used Words You I Think

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I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Asking Bilateral Call Challenged Could Describe Disabled Had Handicapped Hopefully Journalists Just Me Physically Said Well You

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Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: After Chance Describe Doing Feel Getting Heart How Moment Really Something Test Think Want Words Would You Your

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The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

~Alain Aspect

Topics: Century Change Concepts Describe Development Early Mechanics Obliged Physicists Quantum Quantum Mechanics Radically Twentieth Twentieth Century Used World

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Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Bad Concepts Describe Doing Feel Feel Good Good Heaven Hell Help How Invented Like Nice Only Own Reward Someone Virtue

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In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: About Access Continents Define Describe Everything Extended Features Forms Information Instantaneous Knowledge Life Oceans Our Pervasive Physical Provides Quest Reach Seemingly Technology Through Us Which World

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A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

~Alan Perlis

Topics: Adequately Any Describe Hardly Only Picture Picture Is Worth Pictures Sets Those Words Worth

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