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Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives. — Edvard Munch
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say… — Leslie Stephen
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — Gregory Bateson
Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it. — Arthur Kornberg
There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but… — Larry Coryell
Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. — Eric Jerome Dickey
I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it… — Eliot Spitzer
I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have… — Roald Dahl
For those who are understood no need to explain — Ryan Lochte
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do… — Edgar Degas
Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain… — Elie Wiesel
How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets… — P.J. O'Rourke
If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many… — P.J. O'Rourke
You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple. — Phil Knight
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done… — Christopher Hitchens
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific… — William James
Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord,… — George MacDonald

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