Explains Quotes
227 quotes by 215 authors
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Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is…
— Khalil Gibran
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As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be…
— Shadia Drury
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The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started…
— Ernst Mayr
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Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize…
— Bob Proctor
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A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why…
— Arnold Beichman
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Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we…
— Paul Zane Pilzer
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I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.
— Philip Wylie
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I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an…
— Yvon Chouinard
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People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
— Ernest Gellner
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Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through…
— Philip E. Agre
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A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.
— Hosur Narasimhaiah
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That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of…
— Clive Thompson
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One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then…
— Thurman Arnold
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A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people…
— Derren Brown
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So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor…
— Paul Lockhart
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Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not…
— Shane Koyczan
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We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the…
— Tom Rachman
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You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at…
— William Wallace Cook
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To be an effective leader, you must be trustworthy. If people don’t trust you, they won’t follow you. And if they won’t follow you, your…
— Quint Studer
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