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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — Richard Dawkins
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. — Charles Dickens
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. — Marlene Dietrich
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for… — Walt Disney
Never complain and never explain. — Benjamin Disraeli
I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and… — Robert Downey, Jr.
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally.… — Ann Druyan
You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things… — Kirsten Dunst
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain… — Christopher Eccleston
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. — Albert Einstein
I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it. — Idris Elba
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people… — Larry Elder
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm… — Eminem
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course. — Marianne Faithfull
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends,… — Asghar Farhadi
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. — Richard P. Feynman
It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean… — Eddie Van Halen

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