Quotes with explain

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  • Billie Jean King It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Barack Obama It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Benedict Wong Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Mark Twain Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lewis Thomas Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Never explain - your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe you anyway.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Nellie Mcclung Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
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  • Albert Einstein No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Winston Churchill Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Michel Foucault Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Ben Goldacre Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Bob Uecker Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Stephen King The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Mark Twain The more you try to explain it out , the less I understand.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Basil Bunting The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Bernard Williams The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Will Rogers The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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