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• Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't understand myself.' This relates to my game: I didn't understand anything!

  Vassily Ivanchuk

  Games, Suffering, Needs

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• This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

  Adriana Trigiani

  Feelings

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics.

  Robin Dunbar

  Emotional, Views, Play

  Robin Dunbar (2011). “How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what and the why of the big picture.

  Keith Devlin

  Soccer, Teaching, School

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• Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and the environment, understanding of the relationships among these concepts is crucial. This volume does a better job of explaining how to manage both money and nature to ensure humanity's long-term future than any other work I know of. Read and reflect.

  John L. Casti

  Jobs, Long, Understanding

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• Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

  Sparky Anderson

  Cutting, Player, Justice

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• Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

  Bill Gaede

  Predictions, Performing, Experiments

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• Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY!

  Elisabeth Leamy

  Clever, Rain, Giving

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• For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

  Jamake Highwater

  Mean, Mystery, Celebrate

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• There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, he’s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.

  Matt Damon

  Law, Nsa, Democracy

  "Matt Damon: Obama 'broke up with me'" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. August 08, 2013.

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• If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

  Alan Perlis

  Program, Listeners, Ifs

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• Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Moving, Simple, Space

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• It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules.

  Alex Agase

  Dog, Team, Schedules

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• The truly correct proof is one that strikes a harmonious balance between strength and flexibility. There are plenty of proofs that are technically correct but are messy and inelegant or counterintuitive. But it's not something you can put into words - explaining why a formula is beautiful is like trying to explain why the stars are beautiful.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Beautiful, Stars, Trying

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.16, Picador

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• When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To acknowledge human nature, many think, is to endorse racism, sexism, war, greed, genocide, nihilism, reactionary politics, and neglect of children and the disadvantaged. Any claim that the mind has an innate organization strikes people not as a hypothesis that might be incorrect but as a thought it is immoral to think.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, War, Thinking

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.14, Penguin

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• Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.

  Mary Robinson

  Writing, Self, Giving

  Fergus Finlay, Mary Robinson (1990). “Mary Robinson: A President With a Purpose”, O'Brien Pr

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• Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

  Richard Darman

  Reading, Loss, President

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• The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

  Frank Luntz

  Principles, Different, Execution

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• He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Christian, Facts, Glory

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

  Scott McCloud

  Territory, Hood, Familiar

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• I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

  Frank Zappa

  Want

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• Barack Obama was speaking to a Jewish group, and he told them that his name Barack is the same as the Jewish word 'baruch,' which means one who's blessed. That's what he said, yeah. Obama had a harder time explaining his middle name, Hussein. Things got quiet there.

  Conan O'Brien

  Blessed, Mean, Names

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• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Past, Hands

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.36, Nation Books

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• On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  Van Jones

  Lying, Fighting, Past

  "Glenn Beck Gets First Scalp: Van Jones Resigns". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2009.

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• I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

  Ben Stein

  Thinking, Brilliant, Evolution

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