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I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole. — Randy Newman
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at… — Gottfried Leibniz
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain… — Joseph Campbell
If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold… — Jane Campion
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation,… — Melanie Chisholm
The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a… — Justin Guarini
I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is… — Stephen Greenblatt
I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen… — Uri Geller
I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it… — Phillip E. Johnson
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and… — Alex Kapranos
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and… — James J. Gibson
Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this… — Madonna Ciccone
I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless. — Ani DiFranco
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do. — Alexis Korner
Absurd, irreducible; nothing â€” not even a profound and secret delirium of nature â€” could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had… — Jean-Paul Sartre
We prove, we do not explain, our birth, — Marianne Moore
It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art.… — Jonah Lehrer
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — Haruki Murakami
In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and… — Janet Yellen

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