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I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries. — Charles Spurgeon
The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening… — Will Hutton
I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are… — Paul Romer
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair
All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why. — Bill O'Reilly
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of… — Karl Popper
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to… — Tom Segalstad
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop… — George Monbiot
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that single… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if… — Simone de Beauvoir
And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have… — Grant Morrison
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it… — Annie Dillard
Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey.… — Pope Francis
The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous speed and beauty of motion.… — Walt Morey
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It… — Eric Clapton
I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe,… — James Madison
When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish… — Barry McCaffrey
Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it. — Ronnie Day

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