Explanation Quotes - Page 29

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  Ted Dekker

  Yesterday, Trying, Needs

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• we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

  Jose Saramago

  Identity, Coherence, Wasting Time

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• The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn't be concerned about why He said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don't try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn't try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn't see fit to explain. We spend useless time.

  Harold B. Lee

  Thinking, Trying, Answers

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• I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

  Saul Bellow

  Kissing, Faces, Plant

  "Henderson the Rain King". Book by Saul Bellow, February 23, 1959.

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• They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re on a battleground, you don’t have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing’s broken, nothing’s wrong.

  Jennifer Weiner

  War, Book, Luxury

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.

  Lynsay Sands

  Stupid, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Football, Religious, Monday

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• It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

  Diane Duane

  World, Kind, Poor

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• There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to

  Margaret Mead

  Lying, Purpose, Earth

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• To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

  Robert Breault

  Children, Childhood, Wonder

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• More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Majority, Earth, Flying Saucers

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• Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

  George C. Marshall

  Determination, Airplane, Army

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• It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.

  J. William Fulbright

  Voice, Speech, Exhilaration

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• An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

  Greg Koukl

  Refutation

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• Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux of intelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it is important to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thus enabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered a well-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, and finding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about.

  Roger Schank

  Thinking, Curiosity, Important

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• And this is why studying the history of psi is important.  People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries.  Human experiences that continue to be repeated throughout history and across cultures, are not due to ignorance or lack of critical thinking, and demand a serious explanation.

  Dean Radin

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

  Drew Barrymore

  Cat, Ashes, Want

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• I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Design, Waiting, Come Up

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Simple, Needs, Individual

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Design, Demand

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Simplicity, Trying, Easy

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• I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Karate

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• But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

  Javier Bardem

  Father, Believe, Catholic

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• Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

  Todd Bridges

  Children, Needs, Deserve

  "Todd Bridges Says Wearing Diaper Was His Drug-Abuse Low Point". www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

  Alec Guinness

  Needs, Thousand

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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