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• I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

  Greg Kinnear

  Thinking, Term Paper, Training

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.

  Steve Hagen

  Silence, Understanding, May

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• During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Dark, Age, Buchenwald

  G. Edward Griffin (1974). “World without cancer: the story of vitamin B17”, American Media (CA)

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• I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

  Ben Stein

  Thinking, Brilliant, Evolution

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• I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Book, Writing, New Orleans

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• I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

  Anita Diament

  Nice, Rejection, Historical

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• The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

  William Whewell

  Class, Elements, Facts

  William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.155, Hackett Publishing

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• The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

  Richard Dawkins

  Society, Principles, Theory

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.272, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

  Reeve Carney

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive Q&A with Carney's Reeve Carney". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 19, 2011.

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• The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Mean, Creative, Faces

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Relationship, Mistake, Names

  Song: Walls, Album: The Way I Feel

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• De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. His acquaintance, who had so far listened to the explanation with interest, interrupted him and exclaimed, 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Science, Circles

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• I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

  Asa Gray

  May, Extinction, Causes

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• You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

  Peter Garrett

  Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Anxiety, Trying

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

  Peter Mandelson

  Thinking, Decision

  "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

  Jon Postel

  Interesting, Magazines, Computer

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• I'm tired of explaining to Hollywood that people would laugh at me, because I go around America making them laugh every week. Nobody would be offended, nobody would think my leather pants are too controversial.

  Jen Kirkman

  Tired, Thinking, Leather Pants

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Unity, Form, Results

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters”, p.197

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• The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, Opposites, Style

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.92, Vintage

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• No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.

  Gordon Tullock

  Intelligent, Drawing, People

  Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute

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• Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Army, Faithful

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.168, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Causes, Spinoza, Pantheism

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• Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions with Members of Congress in which they can explain in detail the reasons for positions they advocate. Because our congressional representation is based on geographical boundaries, the lobbyists who speak for the various economic, commercial, and other functional interests of this country serve a very useful purpose and have assumed an important role in the legislative process.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Fashion, Important

  "To Keep the Lobbyist Within Bounds". The New York Times Magazine, February 19, 1956.

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• In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

  Karl Marx

  Responsibility, Ideas, Competition

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”

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