Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
Nancy Kerrigan
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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
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
Václav Hlavatý
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Erykah Badu
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The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.
Chuck Klosterman
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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
Ernest Hemingway
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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
Virginia Woolf
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He who believes needs no explanation.
Euripides
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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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"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them?
I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
Adolf Hitler
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
Michelangelo
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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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God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.
Martin Luther
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God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.
John Calvin
