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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldnâ€™t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that… — Brian Behlendorf
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another. — Charles Caleb Colton
What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely… — Albert Einstein
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to… — Elbert Hubbard
If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can… — Sandra Day O'Connor
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. — Lucy Larcom
Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving. — Rumi
If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do. — Orson Scott Card
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience… — Kenneth Tynan
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in… — Ezra Pound
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. — Anne Stevenson
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man. — Susan Sontag
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx;… — Jorge Luis Borges
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have… — Remy de Gourmont
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger. — Maxim Gorky
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that… — Gregory Bateson

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