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Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible? — Jon Stewart
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not… — Malcolm Turnbull
I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger… — Corrine Brown
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity . — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying… — Steven Pinker
Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to… — Rachel Caine
The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records… — Harry Browne
I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand. — Warren Buffett
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make… — Roland Emmerich
Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it.… — Marguerite Duras
He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving [than we do to ask Him].Â As much as we… — Francis Chan
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented… — John Breaux
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official… — Kenny Smith
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… — Georges Cuvier
Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine. — Rob Lowe
The mind canâ€™t explain it, and you canâ€™t make it go away. Itâ€™s called love. — Lois Lowry
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. — Mignon McLaughlin
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if Iâ€™m â€œpassing the torch.â€ I explain that Iâ€™m keeping my torch, thank… — Gloria Steinem
I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay… — Mark Z. Danielewski
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is… — Alfred Edersheim

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