Explaining Quotes

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Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully.… — Brian Johnson
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… — C. D. Broad
Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind… — Eugene H. Peterson
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. — John Ray
Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't… — Robert B. Laughlin
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Leonard Bloomfield
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know. — Maya Angelou
I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and… — Bonnie Baker
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of… — Jeanette Winterson
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is… — Roger Schank
Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet few do it… — Justin Davidson
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them. — Tom Hanks
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all… — Naomi Watts
The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on… — Deepak Chopra
It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define such a thing,… — Josh Radnor
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. — Charles Krauthammer
Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example,… — Ann Coulter
Fear and bigotry donâ€™t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. — Eileen Wilks
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. — Massimo Pigliucci

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