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title: "7 Attempt Explain Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-land/a-premature-attempt-to-explain-something-that-thrills-you-will/)

[Edwin Land](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-land/)

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> [Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elbert-hubbard/theology-is-an-attempt-to-explain-a-subject-by-men-who-do-not/)

[Elbert Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elbert-hubbard/)

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> [Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/nothing-can-be-more-hopeless-than-to-attempt-to-explain-this/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [“None of them will believe me. I drop any attempt to explain myself and just gracefully accept that people are going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cat-hellisen/none-of-them-will-believe-me-i-drop-any-attempt-to-explain-myself-and/)

[Cat Hellisen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cat-hellisen/)

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> [What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-nugent/what-the-hell-is-social-justice-what-sort-of-fool-can-imagine-income/)

[Ted Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-nugent/)

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> [The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-neel/the-human-animal-is-a-fascinating-beast-watching-people-and-trying-to/)

[Andrew Neel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-neel/)

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> [A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-crick/a-theory-should-not-attempt-to-explain-all-the-facts-because-some-of/)

[Francis Crick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-crick/)

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