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Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if… — Muhammad Ali
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. — Jonathan Haidt
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but… — Marvin Gaye
Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.… — Karl Popper
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make… — Harry Browne
If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however,… — John Hagee
It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't… — Kenneth Copeland
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was… — Don Bluth
No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom. — Neville Chamberlain
You ought to be able to explain why youâ€™re taking the job youâ€™re taking, why youâ€™re making the investment youâ€™re making, or whatever it may… — Warren Buffett
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,… — Edward Everett
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real… — Jerome Bruner
Part of the beauty of love was that you didnâ€™t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently… — Meg Wolitzer
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend youâ€™re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back… — Sandra Bernhard
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that… — C.S. Lewis
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate… — Susan Sontag
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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