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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
Faith
Possible
Without
Explanation
Who
Necessary
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis
Myself
Experience
World
Made
Find
No Experience
Most
Another
Probable
Which
Explanation
Satisfy
Desire
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
Charles Krauthammer
You
Conspiracy
Incompetence
Faced
Between
Always
Going
Whenever
Explanation
Choice
Choose
Washington
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
Samuel Witwer
You
Liar
Smart
Be True
Enough
Way
Out
Moral
True
Person
Any
Anything
Justify
Explanation
Low
Really
Fortitude
Figure
Need
Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.
Peter Bergen
Better
Conspiracy
Incompetence
Most
Than
Human
Human Activity
Explanation
Activity
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei
Simple
Will
Drop
First
Naked
Beauty
Hidden
Scant
Seem
Facts
Cloak
Improbable
Which
Explanation
Them
Forth
Stand
Even
I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God
Son
Mind
Ungrateful
Think
Savior
Would
Tried
Atonement
Only
Marvel
Finite
Imperfect
Perfectly
Come
Understand
Up
Often
Impure
Loves
Explanation
Us
Deeply
Save
Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Me
You
Song
Free
Feminism
Think
Thomas
Simplest
Idea
Explanation
Sang
Captures
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
B. R. Ambedkar
Difficult
Kind
Object
Vegetarianism
Namely
Anomaly
Call
Understand
Cow
Person
Quite
Which
Explanation
Should
Flesh
Who
Why
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Bruce Barton
Teacher
Preparation
Supervision
Observation
Steps
New
Employee
Five
New Skills
Explanation
Skills
Teaching
Showing
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco
Astonishment
Only
Which
Explanation
Us
Separates
Incomprehensible
Gateway
There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.
Meat Loaf
Life
Success
Out
Just
Explanation
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
Success
Good
Failure
You
Think
Explanation
Explanations
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
World
Adequate
Seemed
None
Always
Been
Offered
Explanation
Reasons
Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.
Solange Knowles
God
Myself
Decision
Give
Only
Make
Person
Any
Explanation
Based
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
Anthony Hopkins
God
Nature
Religion
Atheist
Believe
Our
Dream
Vividly
Beyond
Existence
Depending
Whether
Explanation
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
Dennis Prager
Music
Will
Some
Come
React
Surely
Up
Human
Human Beings
Explanation
Reason
Beings
Why
I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
John Eccles
Me
Evolution
Darwinian
Self
Had
Came
Experiencing
Realise
Explanation
Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.
Adrian McKinty
Sometimes
Earth
Location
Ancient
Parallel
Temporal
Writers
Geographic
Offered
Quite
Often
Explanation
Fantasy
Novels
Set
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.
Alafair Burke
Law
Long
Realistic
Down
Rules
Those
Law Enforcement
Fact
Exceptions
Feel
Invoke
Know
Also
Reader
Frequently
Just
In Fact
Procedures
Explanation
Enforcement
Usual
Why
Need
In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.
Alastair Reynolds
Work
People
Space
Old
Books
Way
Bit
Rusty
Wrong
Town
Around
Said
Revelation
How
Go
Up
Did
Quite
Grew
Infrastructure
Explanation
Asked
Meant
Full
Sea
Barry
Why
Things
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
Alice Sebold
Daily
Me
You
People
Think
Everything
Having
Through
Because
Go
Up
Very
Ends
Happen
Explained
Interesting
Little
Explanation
Interesting Thing
Us
Your
Actions
Why
Specific
Thing
Things
Things Happen
Desire
I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.
Alvaro Enrigue
World
Live
Believe
Inspiration
Demands
Offer
Fiction
Explanation
Capability
Explanations
Things
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
Arthur Keith
Work
Nature
Must
See
Mental
Give
Adopt
Rational
Take
Existence
Account
Modern
Human
Explain
Explanation
Human Existence
Communities
Theory
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
Ben Lovett
Success
Funny
Music
Think
Imagination
Guess
Bit
Something
More
Obscure
Had
Touring
Like
Perhaps
Leave
American
Quite
Maybe
Which
Explanation
Might
Noticed
Who
Acts
Shy
British
Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.
Bennett Miller
Entertainment
Heart
Met
Mark
Entertainment Industry
Dave
He
Industry
Sort
Anyone
Biggest
Explanation
Ever
Needed
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