Explains Quotes
227 quotes by 215 authors
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing
— Albert Camus
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even…
— Jackson Browne
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Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach.…
— Peter Hitchens
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The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith,…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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A point of rest alone explains motion.
— Swami Vivekananda
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It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The…
— Ralph Caplan
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal…
— Raven-Symone
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Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
— Thomas Merton
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and…
— Wendell Berry
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Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or…
— Theda Skocpol
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Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself.
— Jen Hatmaker
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I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations, there is only…
— Lewis Wolpert
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Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is…
— Peter Kreeft
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When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and mission…
— Suzy Kassem
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...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in…
— Michael Klare
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Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
— Paul Samuelson
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