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• You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Smoking, Heroin

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• There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Struggle, Mean

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• Listen. Don't explain or justify.

  Wayne Dyer

  Listening, Justify

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• We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Space, Atoms, Body

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

  Hazel Scott

  Family, Children, Reason

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• I'm not smart enough to lie

  Ronald Reagan

  Smart, Liars, Lying

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Courage, Warrior

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• In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.

  Claude Bernard

  Life, Mean, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.

  Irving Langmuir

  Book, Teaching, School

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• Everything‟s fine,” I said, with a tight smile. “Kiyo was just giving me his latest explanation about how my son is a terror to be feared.” Dorian scoffed. “Little Thundro? A terror? Hardly, unless perhaps we‟re discussing diapers.

  Richelle Mead

  Son, Giving, Littles

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• When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

  Epicurus

  Science, Appearance, Theory

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• I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Deliverance, Kind, Hungry

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• We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Thinking, Always Trying

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

  Wendell Berry

  Light, Tree, Answers

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• Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Mean, Logic

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• Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan." Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Eye, Hey

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.66, St. Martin's Griffin

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• And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.

  Anne Rice

  Water, House, Mind

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.733, Ballantine Books

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• The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.

  Bernard Beckett

  Believe, Names, Media

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

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• To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

  Agatha Christie

  Weakness, Excuse

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• Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.

  David Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Eye

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• You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

  Koushun Takami

  Nice, Clothes, Joy

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• We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Talking, Needed, Feels

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Winter, Clouds

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• I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

  D. J. MacHale

  Home, House, World

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Grief, Flames, Hands

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