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The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
James Hutton
History
Natural
Seen
Past
Action
Our
Those
Must
Admitted
Except
Employed
Know
Powers
Principle
Globe
Past History
Happening
Which
Explained
Now
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
Jesse Ventura
Me
People
Will
Rest
Pay
Other
State
Out
About
Higher
Students
Higher Taxes
Most
Campaigning
Up
Ended
Often
Tuition
After
While
Explained
Them
Taxes
Pays
Agreeing
Now
Lives
I became a starter in Portland, and then I lost my spot, but for what reason? It wasn't explained to me. I thought it was unfair.
Jessica McDonald
Me
Thought
Lost
Unfair
Became
Spot
Explained
Then
Reason
Portland
Starter
I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
Jimmy Carter
Me
Father
Church
White
White House
Separation
Think
President
State
Appropriate
Church And State
Bit
About
Never
He
Invited
Until
House
Him
Because
Taught
Graham
Explained
Little
Little Bit
Billy
Billy Graham
Injured
Believed
Services
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Joey Adams
Success
Work
Early Work
Late
Secret
Strike
Once
Rockefeller
Up
Get
Oil
The Secret Of
Explained
Early
Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.
John Moody
Situation
Evils
Laws
Both
Fact
New
Understand
Dealing
Were
Did
Managers
Explained
Public
Agency
Inherent
Many
Whose
Railroad
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.
Joshua Cohen
Natural
Hero
Transformation
Hyde
Supernatural
Through
Robert
Terms
Stevenson
Least
His
Louis
Decide
Process
Explained
Biochemistry
Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
Keir Dullea
Ending
Never
He
Were
Kubrick
His
Intend
Intentions
Predictable
Explained
Us
Film
In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
Kenneth Arrow
Care
Differences
Market
Later
Papers
Characteristics
Out
Could
Pointed
Involved
Parties
Insurance
Reference
Information
Explained
Special
Among
Medical
Medical Care
Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.
Kenneth R. Miller
Single
Understanding
Research
Biology
Baby
Statement
Evolution
Would
Exactly
About
Similar
Development
Develops
Most
Terms
Make
How
Scientists
Ultimately
Cell
Human
Human Development
Explained
Far
Molecular
Biochemistry
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Saying
Physics
Predict
Universe
String
Way
String Theory
Distinguishing
Possible
Laws
Between
Imply
Massive
Understand
May
Different
Anything
Explained
Them
Then
Theory
Even
Each
Why
Extent
Number
Universes
I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.
Lisa Lampanelli
Myself
People
Comedy
Complain
Never
Never Complain
Never Explain
Sell
Get
Explain
Explained
Who
I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
Marianne Faithfull
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
Had
Over
Since
Likely
Least
Been
Years
Lot
Very
Behaviour
Explained
Depressed
Even
I would like to say that the National Front has never been anti-Semitic. Not only am I not anti-Semitic, but I have explained to my Jewish compatriots that the movement that is most able to protect them is the National Front.
Marine Le Pen
National
Say
Would
Able
Only
Never
Like
Most
Protect
Am
Been
Anti-Semitic
Front
Movement
Explained
Them
Jewish
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
Martin Chemnitz
Better
Language
Important
Matters
Meditation
Tremendously
Points
Main
Attention
Calling
Important Matters
Am
Understood
Pious
Than
Human
Just
Which
Explained
Human Language
In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.
Marvin Ammori
Service
Competition
Simple
Local
Market
Local Governments
Released
Charge
Simple Reason
Could
Federal
Prices
Study
Trade
Culprit
Governments
According
Report
Commission
Lack
Explained
Customers
Dismal
Reason
Why
He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
Mary Lou Williams
Seriously
Down
Settle
He
How
Decided
Clowning
Explained
Then
There And Then
Ridiculous
Play
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
Mary Wesley
You
Respect
Remember
Animals
Farm
Cities
Throwing
Soon
Towns
Learned
Did
Eggs
Stones
Any
Children
Explained
Meat
Milk
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max Jacob
Friendship
Inexplicable
Want
Explained
Should
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
Michael Hastings
Entirety
Pitch
Story
Explained
Sentence
Should
Second
In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambitions, but that didn't stop us from studying Marxism in theory and Communism in practice to better understand that adversary.
Michael Hayden
War
Communism
Better
Practice
Ambition
Cold
Cold War
Could
Imperial
Marxism
Studying
Adversary
Understand
Lot
Soviet
Stop
Explained
Us
Theory
Actions
Extensions
I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.
Moshe Sharett
Relations
Our
Syria
Syrian
Neighbors
Adjust
Would
Factor
Like
Question
Decisive
Explained
Unimportant
View
Position
I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
Naval Ravikant
Better
Think
Else
Everything
Evolution
About
Civilization
Almost
Almost Everything
Than
Human
Anything
Anything Else
Human Civilization
Explained
Humans
Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
Orlando Jones
Me
Personality
Met
Marlon Brando
Someone
Morgan
Morgan Freeman
Between
Freeman
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Years
Years Ago
Brando
Difference
Being
Explained
Actor
Murphy
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Pierre Schaeffer
Music
Nature
Complete
Complete Mystery
Ancient
Variations
Mystery
True
Contained
Exercise
True Nature
Reveals
Which
Explained
Theme
Moment
Right
Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
Rachel Sklar
Birthday
People
Before
Own
Pots
Weeks
Never
Had
Bought
Oven
Most
Amazed
Were
Than
Did
Explained
Used
Less
Two
Two Weeks
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