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95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details,… — Ha-Joon Chang
The brain has not explained the mind fully. — Wilder Penfield
Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good… — George Washington
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. — Grant Morrison
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away — Harold Geneen
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up… — Karl Marx
Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But… — Paul Zollo
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison… — Michelle Alexander
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable… — Baruch Spinoza
The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing — Damon Knight
The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a… — Peter Hessler
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A… — Marvin Kalb
One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere… — George Lucas
Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies… — Anna Wintour
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot… — Clint Black
In the end nobody knows how it's done â€” how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool… — David Hockney
Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to… — Tom Waits
A work of art doesn't have to be explained, — Louise Bourgeois
For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained. — Moshe Kupferman
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. — Iris Murdoch

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