Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
Albert Einstein
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
William Lewis Trogdon
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll
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Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
Rabbi Hillel
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For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.
Nydia Velazquez
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It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.
Antony Flew
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.
George Julius Poulett Scrope
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Hector Hugh Munro