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• I want my music to do the explaining.

  Demi Lovato

  Want

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• That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.

  Susane Colasanti

  Best Friend, Friends, Pain

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• Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Respect, Strong, Offering

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• Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

  Francis Chan

  God, Christian, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.22, David C Cook

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• There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.

  Joel Osteen

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

  James Hutton

  Science, Past, History

  "Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Book published by Royal Society of Edinburgh, "Theory of the Earth", 1785.

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• There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

  Rubem Alves

  Reading, Order, Joy

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• Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

  Harry Styles

  Wall, Popular Song, Stories

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Success, Education

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  The Motto Book (1907)

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele

  Happy, Heart, Science

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• It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Couple, Women, Mean

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.287, Penguin

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• Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Communication, Positivity, Simple

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• Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.

  Winona LaDuke

  Drinking, Native American, Water

  "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" by Winona LaDuke, progressive.org. June 18, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Teaching, Evil

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• Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.

  J. Christopher Burch

  Knowing, Battle, Half

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• Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Order, Useless

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Wish, Administration

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• No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Perfect, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.653, Library of America

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