Quotes with explanation

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  • Red Auerbach The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Angelus Silesius The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • William Somerset Maugham There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Salman Rushdie Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • William Winwood Reade We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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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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  • Harry Browne You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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