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• You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Real, Past, People

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• What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

  Karl Rahner

  Mean, Expression, Giving

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• With some reservation, it can be said that certain democratic elements are present in Georgia as well; but it is very clear that the government has to pronounce its explicit wish to resign before something is going to happen. On the western front, only Belarus is an exception.

  Garry Kasparov

  Government, Wish, Elements

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

  Alice Meynell

  Heart, Blood, Color

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.115, eBookIt.com

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• I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

  Vanilla Ice

  Real, Age, Groups

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• Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.

  Norman Doidge

  Memories, Needs, Analysis

  "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science". Book by Norman Doidge (pp. 229-230), March 15, 2007.

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• Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

  Alan Watts

  Unity, Chaos, Duality

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.126, New World Library

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• Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Cameras, Needs

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 23, 2012.

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• In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.

  Margaret Mead

  Teacher, Teaching, Adults

  "An Anthropologist Looks at the Teacher's Role". Educational Method, Vol 21, p. 219-223, 1942.

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• You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.

  Michael Dell

  Mean, Acceptance, Successful

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• Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Mirrors, Issues

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sex, Attitude, Children

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• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplist and most explicit of directions.

  Cleveland Amory

  Cat, Mind, Inability

  Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

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• Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

  Bernard Crick

  Thinking, Political, Challenges

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, California, Hollywood

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.

  Bill Gates

  Reality, Doctors, Safety

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

  Clay Shirky

  Trying, Way, Fuzzy

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• In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.

  Alton Tobey

  Profound, Development, Patterns

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• My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Feelings, Preparation

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• Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Rights, Constitution

  "Women’s Equality Yet to Be Fully Realized" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

  Robert P. Crease

  Book, Humanity, Important

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• Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Agendas, Wealth, Progressive

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• Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Women, Watches

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• Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at all, whether painterly, social or aesthetic. I tried to find nothing too explicit, hence all the banal subjects; and then, again, I tried to avoid letting the banal turn into my issue and my trademark. So it's all evasive action, in a way.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Issues, Choices

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human Understanding and also we want to sell as many books as possible to adolescent boys.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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