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There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of… — John F. Kennedy
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss… — Hart Crane
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, — Robert Lowell
If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl — Thom Yorke
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent… — Timothy Zahn
When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in… — Ingmar Bergman
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with… — Alain Badiou
It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to… — Ayumi Hamasaki
Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they… — Heraclitus
There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of… — Robert E. Lee
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there… — Jeffrey Sachs
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
[Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home… — Brad Pitt
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To… — Leonhard Euler
There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand… — Douglas Wakiihuri
If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been… — Paul Krugman
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and… — Helen Steiner Rice
Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more… — Francois Mauriac
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely… — Lewis H. Lapham

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