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Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet. -- Tipper Gore
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. -- William Blake
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. -- Benjamin Disraeli
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself. -- Karl Rahner
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. -- Walt Disney
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. -- Bill Gates
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn. -- Jeremy Bentham
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church. -- Hillary Clinton
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book. -- Robert P. Crease
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
Marathon runners set explicit goals. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. -- Alan Watts
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. -- Doris Day
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception. -- Marianne Faithfull
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit -- Doris Day
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. -- Samuel Richardson
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. -- James Mark Baldwin
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. -- Colleen McCullough
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit -- Duncan Sheik
Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous. -- Brene Brown
Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed. -- Roy Bean
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.' -- Evgeny Morozov
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. -- Arthur Keith
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God. -- Stanley Hauerwas
When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls. -- Natalie Dormer
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. -- Henri Nouwen
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit. -- James Dobson
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense. -- Eric Maskin
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. -- Elizabeth Moon
Beyonce is incredibly talented - gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer - without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom. -- Mike Huckabee
While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net. -- Vint Cerf
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical. -- Samuel Alexander
The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood. -- Alice Meynell
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service. -- Arthur Capper
I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it. -- Vanilla Ice
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? -- B. F. Skinner
Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit. -- Tom Hooper
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves. -- John Updike
Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for. -- Junot Diaz
My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared. -- Jesse Eisenberg
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom. -- Karen DeCrow
I have never written anything sexually explicit, -- Lynne Cheney
There is an explicit way to define what explicit is. -- Noga Alon
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. -- Patrick Rothfuss
If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution. -- Carolyn Maloney
As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed. -- Ab-Soul
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. -- Tim Wu
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. -- Mary Ellen Mark
In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write. -- Quentin S. Crisp
No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose -- Mahatma Gandhi
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. -- Teju Cole
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. -- Siri Hustvedt
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit. -- Duncan Sheik
The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing. -- Michele Soavi
The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation. -- Andy Grundberg
To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome. -- Donald Rumsfeld
People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
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
What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit. -- Ryan Holiday
Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. -- Clay Shirky
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. -- Larry Wall
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art. -- Geoff Dyer
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. -- Thomas Mann
I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking. -- Bernard Crick
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong. -- Gary Ackerman
A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion. -- Theodore Roethke
I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer. -- Annie Sprinkle
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
We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit. -- Noreena Hertz
We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing. -- Burton Silverman
The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all. -- George Washington
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about. -- M. Ward
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves. -- Yehuda Levi
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
Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide. -- David Livermore
It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit. -- Jean-Francois Chevrier
I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this. -- Catherine Brady
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit. -- Mark Twain
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
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment. -- Amartya Sen
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. -- Wyndham Lewis
Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved. -- Albert Low
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
I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it. -- Sufjan Stevens
The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children. -- Phyllis Schlafly
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel. -- Werner Herzog
She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet. -- Dave Barry
Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere. -- Inga Muscio
As the world confronts the challenges of globalisation, theentertainment Industry and a web saturated with explicit sexualcontent, is increasingly making it difficult for young people to makeinformed decisions about sex -- Oche Otorkpa
I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location. -- Siri Hustvedt
We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. -- John Negroponte
In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit. -- Alton Tobey
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
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
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity. -- Jack Vance
Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions. -- Cleveland Amory
Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance. -- Tom Boellstorff
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. -- John Bigelow
God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals. -- James Fallows
Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess -- Ian Christie
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable. -- Michael Polanyi

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