“ We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. ”
- Byron R. White- Copy
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“ If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the quiet acceptance of what is.". ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
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“ Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything. ”
- Mohammad Ali- Copy
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“ Economic growth in our economy is almost certainly going to translate into a need for a larger workforce. ”
- Ben Johnson- Copy
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“ It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
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“ Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up. ”
- Vince Vaughn- Copy
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“ You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ”
- Greg Egan- Copy
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“ Am I disappointed in his behavior and his decision? Absolutely,... I can neither justify nor explain his decision. ”
- Carly Fiorina- Copy
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“ Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. ”
- Donald Knuth- Copy
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“ If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. ”
- Morris West- Copy
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“ There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
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“ But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
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“ Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism. ”
- Robert Runcie- Copy
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“ To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. ”
- David Brooks- Copy
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“ Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation. ”
- Timothy McVeigh- Copy
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“ In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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