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I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls. But the suffering… — Melina Mercouri
In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and… — Richard J. Foster
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this… — Richard J. Foster
Iâ€™m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me. — Esperanza Spalding
Things explain each other, not themselves. — George Oppen
Heâ€™s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. Thatâ€™s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power.… — Lester Hayes
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows. — Bob Mould
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to… — Basil Bunting
It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the… — Richard Swinburne
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,… — Barbara Johnson
When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true… — Michael Eisen
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong — Francis Crick
To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain. — Brassai
So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain… — George Carlin
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to… — Aldous Huxley
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. — Leonard Susskind
Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that… — John Hodgman
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because… — Kathy Lette
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their… — Robin Gibb
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the… — Donald A. Norman

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