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• True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Real, Law

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• Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it backfired and whipped up abhorrence in the
  context of total revolution. This might be one of the explanations why repression assumed proportions unknown in other Communist countries. The mask of Angkar was a good tactic to grab
  power, but it proved disastrous in government.

  Pol Pot

  Country, Government, Hatred

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• When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Details, Machines

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Preface Letter to Pope Paul III)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.

  Salle Merrill Redfield

  Balance, Mystery, Daily Life

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• Things might not go as planned, but at the end of the day it’s up to me to take those risks and do what I love most. And I don’t owe anybody an explanation. My journey is my journey.

  Janelle Monae

  Journey, Risk, The End Of The Day

  "Going Androidgenous With Janelle Monáe". Interview with Victoria Rossi, www.motherjones.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I think we have a free will, and at the same moment we don't. We have to live with that. It doesn't make sense intellectually, but that's because our intellect is always trying to come up with a logical, rational explanation for things. To do that, it puts labels on things. But once you label something, you've got twoness. You've got the label, and you've got what you're labeling. And there is only oneness in the universe, even though we artificially believe in twoness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Thinking, Oneness

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• We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Suffering, Needs, Answers

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

  Andy Andrews

  Children, Teenager, Understanding

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Living an Extraordinary Life, Finding Your 'Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's like Picasso, it's like Mondrian - it's not. Art's supposed to be what it is. Using a reference of art history might help for some kind of sales, but it doesn't really help anybody. Art is what it is; it cannot be footnoted, until it enters the world. Then it has a history. Then the footnotes are the history, not the explanation.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.

  Proclus

  Believe, Simple, Discovery

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• Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Believe, Feelings, Violence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

  Martin Walser

  Atheist, Rhythm, Make Sense

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

  Mario Bunge

  And Love, Taste, Normal

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• 'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Laughter, Humor

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• There are lots of those who speak but few who do. However, no one should distort the word of God by his own negligence, but it is better to confess your own weakness, not hiding the truth of God, so that together with the breaking of the commandments you do not also appear guilty of an untrustworthy explanation of the word of God.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.

  Jeff Cooper

  Doe, Action, Appearance

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.14, Paladin Press

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• In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices, let me state categorically that all my experience (such as it is) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record.

  D. V. Ager

  Book, Acceptance, Science

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• I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.

  Leonard Susskind

  Atheism, Agents, Venture

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• I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.

  Candice Bergen

  Breathing, Sides, Actresses

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• It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Mean, Men

  "New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

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• Who then will explain the explanation?

  Lord Byron

  Statistics

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• The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.

  Peter Atkins

  Hard Work, Challenges, Together

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• To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath the horrible disjunction you feel at every moment between you and all you are not, there dwells in the universe a secret harmony, a coherence and rightness like a balanced equation that’s out of reach for now but some day will reveal itself in its entirety.

  Paul Murray

  Believe, Mean, Secret

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• Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.

  Mike McCurry

  Stupid, Humorous, Simple

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• I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

  Don Marquis

  Race, Bells, Hell

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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