“ The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. ”
- Byron R. White- Copy
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“ Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this. ”
- Klaus Kinski- Copy
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“ Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. ”
- Marianne Moore- Copy
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“ The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks itself, and what it does contain, In all things needful to be known is plain. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. ”
- Maurice Merleau Ponty- Copy
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“ Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like? ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates. ”
- Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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“ Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. ”
- Donald Knuth- Copy
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“ I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
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“ There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it. ”
- Rene Russo- Copy
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“ The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way. ”
- Virgil Thomson- Copy
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“ To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. ”
- Edward Steichen- Copy
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“ There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. ”
- Georges Braque- Copy
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“ When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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“ Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to illuminate and burn. ”
- L. Schefer- Copy
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“ The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ”
- Joel Coen- Copy
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“ Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. ”
- Gene Wilder- Copy
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