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We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more… — Reinhold Niebuhr
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In… — Carl Jung
Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more. — Neil Abramson
The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that… — Leland Ryken
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical curiosities… — Jeff Belanger
[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She… — Ronald Reagan
Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens. — Tom Turner
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. — Jacques Delors
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the… — Edith Hamilton
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. — Greg Egan
The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief… — Chapman Cohen
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. — Marilynne Robinson
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and… — Nelson Algren
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion. — Ben Marcus
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own… — Gerhard Richter
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago,… — Dinesh D'Souza
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how… — William A. Dembski
A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I… — Robert Fisk
When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh.… — Jeff Greenfield
A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept… — Terry Brooks

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