Explaining Quotes

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  The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Health, Theory Of Evolution, Inspire

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.300, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

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• Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Knowing, Effort, Literature

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• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Forever, Understanding

  Le Petit Prince ch. 1 (1943)

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• I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

  David Bowie

  Years, Music And Life, Doe

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 28, 2012

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• You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, I Hate You, Needs

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 04, 2011

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• The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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• Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

  LeCrae

  People, Waste, Committed

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• Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

  dream hampton

  Inspirational, Relationship, People

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• Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.

  Sonia Choquette

  Inspirational, Bad Vibes, Giving

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Sep 26, 2011

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• If you're explaining, you're losing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Political, Losing

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• I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

  Shel Silverstein

  Believe

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• Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Motivational, Apology, Criticism

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.7, University of Toronto Press

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• Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Records

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• When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

  George Saunders

  Long, Way, Feels

  "George Saunders: a life in writing". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Sky

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

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• If you are explaining, you are losing.

  J. C. Watts

  Losing, Conservative, Ifs

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• If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

  Kobe Bryant

  Athlete, Phones, Cameras

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• I want my music to do the explaining.

  Demi Lovato

  Want

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• The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, its no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

  Michael Vick

  Hurt, Animal, Night

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• I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Teacher, Heart

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• Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Zero, Confused, Reality

  "Your Strength as a Rationalist". lesswrong.com. August 11, 2007.

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• As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

  Justin Amash

  Saws, Vote, Legislators

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