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• What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Lines, Facts, Arguing

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.41, Verso

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• It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.

  Josh Garrels

  Faith, Inspiration, Sky

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• I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then, of course, I would most decidedly have to oppose such an enterprise. One is then looking for something that can never be found, for there is nothing there, and everything gets lost, becomes confused and vague, and degenerates into a game of hide and seek.

  David Hilbert

  Confused, Mean, Games

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• I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Kissing, Blood

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• The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption - a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated, not those who opposed it, and who opposed it merely lest the construction should be applied which they denounced as possible.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Adoption, Understanding

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• In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ideas, Perfection

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.6, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

  Carl Jung

  Intelligent, Pilots, Guidance

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• ...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has to distinguish two subvarieties. Type 2a physicists explain why they are not bothered. Their explanations tend either to miss the point entirely (like Born's to Einstein) or to contain physical assertions that can be shown to be false. Type 2b are not bothered and refuse to explain why.

  David Mermin

  Science, Two, Missing

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• I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

  Janet Reno

  Men, Maids, Attraction

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• I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

  Mark McGwire

  Running, Home, Mean

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• I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.

  Dennis Rodman

  Guy, Hendrix, Dies

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• People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting.

  Linda Evangelista

  Thinking, People, Sitting Down

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have nothing intelligent to say.

  Meg Tilly

  Intelligent

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• I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gay, Coming Out, Closets

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• I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

  Tom Waits

  Guy, Rats, Wedding Ring

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• I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

  Calvin Coolidge

  President, Ass, Wanted

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• If people screw me, I screw back in spades.

  Donald Trump

  People, Spades, Screws

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• I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.

  Mel Brooks

  Sex, Kids, Thinking

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• There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

  George Burns

  Light, Doors, Car

  George Burns (1986). “Dear George”, Perigee Books

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• I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

  Johnny Depp

  Hate, People, Flash

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• Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Feminism, Ugly

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• I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.

  Marlon Brando

  Men, Thinking, Female

  "Kosher Sex : A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy". Book by Shmuley Boteach, 2000.

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• I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Loyalty, Real, Kissing

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