Explain Away Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain…
— Graydon Carter
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The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts…
— Donald Woods Winnicott
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There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete…
— Denis Leary
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It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,…
— William Kittredge
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Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
— Paul Claudel
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Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.…
— Karl Popper
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A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.
— Dave Matthews
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One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors-…
— Susan Collins
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if…
— Alec Guinness
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Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,…
— Barbara Johnson
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Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
— Megan Chance
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
— Jack Bruce
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Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate. †No, using…
— George Will
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In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be…
— Napoleon Hill
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The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and…
— Moby
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and…
— Aldous Huxley
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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away…
— Edwin Land
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To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no…
— Georges Braque
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the…
— Charles de Lint
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