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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. — Abraham Lincoln
Love is just love, it can never be explained. — James Earl Jones
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. — Julian Barnes
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of… — Charles Dickens
But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the… — John Dewey
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again… — Margery Allingham
After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, â€˜In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.â€™ Â… — John Cage
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and… — Fernando Pessoa
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein
Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be… — F. F. Bruce
He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is… — Ahmad ibn Rustah
I have often heard, "I love God but just don't like His people." This may sound glib, but as John explained, this is a basic… — Rick Joyner
Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered… — Ursula Goodenough
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in… — Ken Wilber
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest)… — Francis Maitland Balfour
I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe… — Charles Darwin
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained… — Georges Canguilhem

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