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Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally… — Dermot Bolger
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation--it either takes or it doesn't--and when you explain to somebody what it is and… — Seth Klarman
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. — Massimo Pigliucci
You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it… — Vivian Kubrick
In the end nobody knows how it's done â€” how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool… — David Hockney
My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed securities. — Jenna Lee
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal… — Dominique Fernandez
I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning to quiet the clamor in… — Kelly Cutrone
Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers… — Eddie Vedder
I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a… — Willie Mays
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer. — Toni Morrison
I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing… — George W. Bush
I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you. — Ed Koch
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. — Murray Kempton
If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there. — Barry Hannah
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded… — Robert Adams
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of… — Frederick Jackson Turner
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… — Abraham Maslow
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.' — B.F. Skinner

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