Quotes with explain

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  • Oscar Wilde The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Hazel Scott There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
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  • Euripides Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bobby Bowden To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Brene Brown To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • B. F. Skinner We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word admire then means marvel at.
    Beyond Freedom and Dignity
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Pat Riley When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Bryan Burrough When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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