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  • Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
  • Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
  • Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

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  • Harold S. Geneen It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • W. C. Fields W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Ansel Adams A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Arthur Cayley As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Barry Marshall Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Emile Durkheim Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Charlie Chaplin I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Angela Merkel I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • A. A. Milne I'm giving this to Eeyore, he explained, as a present. What are you going to give?
    Couldn't I give it too? said Piglet. From both of us?
    No, said Pooh. That would not be a good plan.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Chapter Six
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Quentin Crisp It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bob Uecker Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Martin Luther King Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Olympia Brown The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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