Explanation Quotes

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. — Red Auerbach
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those… — Charles Babbage
I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. — Erykah Badu
In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. — Dave Barry
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. — Bruce Barton
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. — Warren Beatty
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding… — Tony Campolo
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I… — Julia Child
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need… — Eric Clapton
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense… — William J. Clinton
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation… — Harlan Coben
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. — Paulo Coelho
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries… — Maya Angelou
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. — Thomas Aquinas
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way… — Richard Dawkins
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. — Ronald Knox
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence… — Bruce Alberts

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