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• While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Song, Moving, Sexually

  “9 Songs” by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. July 22, 2005.

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• To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Support, Outcomes, Gains

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

  Teju Cole

  Photography, Difficulty

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one can get an output text which seemingly carries new knowledge. The basic examples are furnished by scientific or technological calculations: general laws plus initial conditions produce predictions, often only after time-consuming and computer-aided work. One can say that the input contains an implicit knowledge which is thereby made explicit.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Law, Games, Peculiar

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• I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Guy, Midwest, Towns

  "Why Jim Gaffigan Can't Stop Eating". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2014.

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• From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Order, Government, Ottomans

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• He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

  Washington Irving

  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

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• There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

  Noga Alon

  Science, Way, Mathematics

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• What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.

  Hugo Black

  Taken, Evil, Justice

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• It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

  John Berger

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  1979 Pig Earth,'Historical Afterward'.

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• In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).

  Kenneth Keniston

  Family, Broken, Program

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.

  Martin Heidegger

  Past, Destiny, Men

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, May 31, 1976.

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• Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Writing, Culture

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

  Talal Asad

  Hate, Character, Law

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• I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Artist, Parent, Honor

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

  Mark Webber

  Years, Actors, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.

  Omar Zuniga

  Culture, Way, Emotion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and alienate certain audiences, it would limit who has access to the film, and that's something I think a lot about with this story.

  Travis Mathews

  Honesty, Character, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

  Leslye Headland

  Mistake, Focus, Achievement

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Cutting, Expression, Freedom Of Expression

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• I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

  Tom Lehrer

  Teaching, Mean, Fighting

  "Song: "Lobachevsky"("Songs by Tom Lehrer")". 1953.

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• Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

  Robert C. Solomon

  Perfection, Kitsch, Execution

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• We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.

  Michael Hudson

  Writing, Debt, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.

  Carolyn Hax

  School, Mean, Kids

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no rules against male professors asking out female students. The reverse didn't happen since female professors were rare or nonexistent. Visiting writers came, 90% of them male, and some expected that a female student would materialize as his date for the visit.

  Debra Monroe

  School, World, Female

  Source: therumpus.net

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