Explaining Quotes

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Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were… — Ben Bernanke
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few… — Anita Hill
The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. — Laura Miller
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things. — Myrtle Reed
It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens, thus… — James R. Lewis
The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field. — Jonah Lehrer
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann
Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin. — Sara Nelson
The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out… — Carrie Brownstein
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of… — Charles Lyell
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict. — Paul Davies
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit?… — J. Michael Bishop
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have… — James Joseph Sylvester
Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't… — Vassily Ivanchuk
This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling — Adriana Trigiani
It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to… — Robin Dunbar
For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is… — Keith Devlin
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and… — John L. Casti
If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why. — Paulo Coelho

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