Explanation Quotes
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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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So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.
Antony Flew
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I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.
Tim Ferriss
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We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.
Simon Sinek
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The young man smiled—certainly a very personable young man—and explained that the light was no longer strong enough to do any more. Again in this explanation did he call me gnädiges Fräulein, and again was I touched by so much innocence. And his German, too, was touching; it was so conscientiously grammatical, so laboriously put together, so like pieces of Goethe learned by heart.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
William of Occam
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People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.
Hedi Slimane
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I just want to play and do think at times I'm on a shorter leash. Sometimes I do think about playing elsewhere, but that's mostly when I'm frustrated and when stuff happens to my minutes and nobody has an explanation for it.
Eddy Curry
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I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
Neil Diamond
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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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The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.
Virgil Thomson
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Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.
Egon Friedell
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One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Go with your gut. Sometimes things defy explanation - and who knows where it will lead?
Cathy Hopkins
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A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.
Ernst Bacon
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
Johannes Kepler
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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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In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about three days when a car that was sent to take me to an interview failed to start. After several attempts to get it going, the driver turned to me, smiled wearily and explained: 'Soviet car'. By that time, that was all the explanation I needed.
Anthony DeCurtis
