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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt. -- Marianne Moore
Mondays are just like Sam from Clarissa Explains it All. They just show up through the damn window whenever the hell they feel like it. -- Shannon Woodward
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers. -- Lily Tomlin
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. -- Mason Cooley
A good theory explains a lot but postulates little. -- Richard Dawkins
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here. -- Richard Dawkins
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward
You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it. -- David Alpay
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. -- Joel Salatin
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. -- James A. Michener
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. -- James Joyce
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth. -- Paul Johnson
The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle. -- Janice Dickinson
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. -- Sloan Wilson
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. -- Paul Samuelson
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Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. -- William A. Dembski
Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something. -- Mortimer Adler
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. -- Earl Browder
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do. -- Frank Luntz
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. -- Hugh Hefner
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal. -- Stephen Hawking
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. -- Peter Drucker
Even though I always knew I had a good nose for fragrances, the process of creating my own, 'Alive,' turned out to be a great learning experience for me. And the name explains my reason behind it. Smelling good makes you feel alive. -- Arjun Rampal
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. -- Donald Johanson
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama. -- Roger Ebert
So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life. -- Robert Lanza
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. -- Mary Roach
Activate Your Goodness' explains how we all have a stake in our collective future, each and every person in their own unique way. As I see it, it is all about personally taking responsibility for our actions, and fully realizing that by thinking good, speaking good and doing good, you can find your place in life. -- Shari Arison
A point of rest alone explains motion. -- Swami Vivekananda
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing -- Karl Popper
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all. -- Elif Safak
The innocent is the person who explains nothing -- Albert Camus
Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself. -- Jen Hatmaker
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. -- Robert Anton Wilson
A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires -- William Arthur Ward
One link in a chain explains the infinite chain. -- Swami Vivekananda
There's a weird logic that explains a common truth. -- Toba Beta
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. -- Alice Childress
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. -- Greg Egan
The past is useless. That explains why it is past. -- Wright Morris
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. -- Robert Breault
Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains. -- Celine Dion
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself. -- Mark Twain
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it. -- Stanislaw Lem
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. -- Marilynne Robinson
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. -- Marianne Moore
I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything. -- Andrew Solomon
He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing -- Johnny Rich
Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more. -- Neil Abramson
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. -- John McCarthy
No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. -- Joel Sternfeld
Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots -- Chronixx
A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself. -- Auliq Ice
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. -- Byron White
Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens. -- Tom Turner
A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires. -- Hosur Narasimhaiah
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. -- Peter L. Berger
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. -- Isaac Newton
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance. -- Elisabeth Elliot
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. -- Stanley Hauerwas
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Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. -- Philip James Bailey
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot. -- Terry Pratchett
What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today. -- John Irving
We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning. -- Hafez Ibrahim
My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights? -- Mercedes McCambridge
I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever. -- Kit Reed
Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God." -- Joel Salatin
Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it. -- Kenneth Waltz
People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing. -- Ernest Gellner
A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward
...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.... -- John Geddes
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. -- Jacques Delors
To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat. -- Alan Wolfe
The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves. -- Harvey Mackay
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.] -- George Herbert
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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said. -- Jerry Spinelli
I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. -- Beaumont Newhall
Tybalt's what we call "?Cait Sidhe'"? the fairy cats. Which explains the attitude. And the eyes." "Meow," said Tybalt, deadpan. -- Mira Grant
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains. -- Thomas Merton
They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch. -- Charles Ghigna
I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former. -- Philip Wylie
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery. -- Hilda Doolittle
Starbucks is planning to close down all the restrooms in its New York locations. Which explains the most popular new Starbucks order: An empty cup. -- Jimmy Fallon
It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them. -- Terry Pratchett
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil -- Edward Joseph Young
I realise I'm behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so much. -- Mandy Wiener
He came third in the state for woodwork," Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times. -- Melina Marchetta
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real. -- Paul Virilio
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion. -- Ben Marcus
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. -- Jaron Lanier
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him. -- Leon Trotsky
Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. -- Andrew Motion
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine. -- Richard Dawkins
Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. -- Bob Proctor
The truth can finally be told: Donald Trump's autism was caused by a vaccination that went terribly wrong; this explains why he can't relate to other people. -- Michael R. Burch
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing. -- Derren Brown
Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth.' -- Jimmy Fallon
I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low. -- James Surowiecki
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work. -- Jon Landau
It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history. -- Marcel Duchamp
We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories -- Tom Rachman
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
The covenants are thus fulfilled through the teamwork of the whole Trinity; otherwise the Gospel is dead and ineffective - as the Apostle Paul explains in First Corinthians 15:12-17: -- Reid A. Ashbaucher
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower. -- Edith Hamilton
Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels. -- Umberto Eco

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