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Phil Harris and Pat Boone were once paired as guests on an episode of Andy Williams' TV show. During a rehearsal break, Harris suggested the three of them go out for a drink. When Boone declined, explaining he did not drink, Harris asked Williams, "Andy, can you imagine getting up in the morning knowing that's the best you're going to feel all day?"

Andy Williams

Morning, Tv Shows, Knowing

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I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own characterthe author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

Jose Saramago

Character, Thinking, Feelings

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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

Victor Borge

Keys, Elephants, Piano

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In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peach, negotiation, and foreign commerce.' Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to tax, spend and regulate as it pleases or have Americans said, 'To hell with the Constitution'?

Walter E. Williams

Father, War, Government

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No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

Leonard Read

Miracle, Understanding, Surface

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Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

Paul Washer

Men, Order, Risk

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[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.

Paul Krugman

Real, People, Trying

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Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone's permission or explaining itself.

Robert B. Laughlin

Government, Heal Itself, Weather

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Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.

Edward de Bono

Jesus, Heart, Play

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To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

Emily Post

Sports, Games, Irritation

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.529, Cosimo, Inc.

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It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.

Toni Morrison

Art, Years, Racism

"Black Studies Center public dialogue. Pt. 2 (A Humanist View)", May 30, 1975.

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The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.

Maimonides

Jobs, Book, Ideas

"Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.22, 1190.

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God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Suffering, Sorrow, Faces

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George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

Bill Maher

Book, Political, Needs

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Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary capacity. Since the critic exists only for introducing and explaining, he must be readily intelligible; he has no special vocabulary: criticism is in no way a science or a system.

Jacques Barzun

Art, Humility, Vocabulary

Jacques Barzun (1989). “The Culture We Deserve”, p.20, Wesleyan University Press

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A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

Dorothy Nevill

Politician, Modern, Capacity

Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

Isaac Newton

Science, Principles, Synthesis

Sir Isaac Newton (1730). “Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.380

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When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

Betty White

Thinking, Funniness, Formulas

"Q&A: Betty White Talks ‘Off Their Rockers’, ‘Hot in Cleveland’ and Her Long, Wonderful Career". Interview, www.dailyactor.com. April 24, 2012.

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Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

Fred W. Friendly

News, Today, Firsts

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Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

Jonah Goldberg

Keys, Light, Car

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It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Order, Skills, Different

"The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, pp. 16-17, 1958.

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When it comes to explaining the Blessed Virgin Mary, having a lot of love is more important than having a lot of answers. When we come up lacking, she’ll make greater goods out of our deficiencies, as only a mother can do. Whenever we're humiliated and shown our weakness, we should get ready for something better than we could ever plan and prepare to accomplish. Evangelize with joy, then, and with confidence. Know from the start that you don’t have all the answers-but your Savior does, and He loves His mother. He will give you everything you need, even if sometimes you need to fail.

Scott Hahn

Mother, Blessed, Love Is

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I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.

Robert Reich

Brother, Jobs, Lying

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As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

Paul Schullery

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.4, UNM Press

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Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project.

Christian Louboutin

Design, Mind, Projects

"interview with shoe designer christian louboutin". Designboom magazine Interview, www.designboom.com. May 21, 2014.

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