Explain Away Quotes

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. — Pat Riley
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. — Oscar Wilde
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. — Rudyard Kipling
If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical… — Sharon Shinn
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only… — Richard Matheson
...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. — Junot Diaz
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't… — Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless… — Rick Perlstein
Why try to explain away a portrait of You painted by the insecurities of another? You didn't pick the brushes, the colors, nor the canvas… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler

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