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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
Bill Nye
Education
Nature
Respect
Science
Every
Universe
Our
Must
About
Observation
Sort
Because
Real
Dollars
Inference
Intended
Any
Tax
Tax Dollars
Process
Explanation
Teach
Used
Origin
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
Brian Greene
Beautiful
God
Me
Words
Word
Sense
Universe
Incredibly
Those
OK
Collections
Some
Someone
Underlying
Understand
Wondrous
Wants
Place
Explanation
Fully
Fills
We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
Claire McCaskill
Work
Believe
Piece
Nominee
Block
Owe
Senator
Legislation
Wants
Public
Explanation
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
D. H. Lawrence
Soul
Experience
Myth
Too
Mental
Purpose
Attempt
Blood
Going
Human
Which
Explanation
Human Experience
Deep
Whole
Description
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.
David Blunkett
Good
Change
People
Politician
Every
Minds
Distinguishing
Bad
Constitutional
Idea
Between
Another
Represent
Being
Explanation
Next
Should
Media
Why
Presents
Good Idea
Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.
David Cage
Life
Work
Death
Try
Made
Own
Religions
Life And Death
Give
My Own
Beyond
Around
Souls
How
Up
Different
Story
Explanation
Working
If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago - what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two things? I came up with - He came up with it, of course - that all things are fakeable.
David Javerbaum
God
Best
World
Logical
Evidence
Those
Evolution
Reconcile
All Things
Only
He
Most
Course
Came
Years
Years Ago
Up
Explanation
Created
Things
Two
And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.
David Kay
Me
Political
Think
Analyst
Pressured
Administration
Would
Given
Take
Wrong
Reach
Most
Another
Conclusions
Political Agenda
Were
Fit
Commonly
Explanation
Explanations
Agenda
Deeply
The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.
David Ogden Stiers
Truth
Christmas
Me
Director
Simple
Mind
Made
Energy
Breath
White
Every
Tremble
Say
Strive
David
Sharp
Dialogue
Same
Just
Explanation
Asking
Breeze
Float
Actor
Need
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.
Denise Mina
Best
Me
Hate
Confused
Reading
Top
Eye
Out
Composition
Point
Through
Stuck
Like
Looks
Comic
Dialogue
Springs
Goes
Gets
Going
Moves
Explain
Explanation
Then
Certain
Your
Certain Point
Image
Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
Dick Gephardt
Education
Democracy
Communication
Listening
Job
Constant
Interactive
Information
Explanation
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
Don DeLillo
Life
My Life
Embarked
Anything
Explanation
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.
Donald Johanson
Best
Evolution
Fact
Observations
Powerful
Known
Explanation
Theory
Gravity
The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
Donna Brazile
Politics
Balance
People
Congress
Benefit
Our
Neither
Would
Districts
Seem
Excess
Disappeared
Partial
Check
Checks
Balances
Principles
Nor
Offer
Intended
Middle
Middle Ground
Explanation
Create
Interests
Ground
Media
Why
Founders
Competing
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
Eben Alexander
Mind
Alive
Lay
Fact
Self
Well
Scientific
While
Explanation
Body
Conscious
Inner
Inner Self
As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.
Edward Witten
Time
Three
Other
String
Dimensions
About
Proposals
Over
Well
Been
Microscopic
Explanation
Large
Map
Now
Why
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.
Elie Ducommun
Character
Justice
Progress
Achieve
Difficult
Earth
Promote
Civilization
Shape
Come
How
Leave
Task
Trying
Explain
Explanation
Far
Us
Forward
Wars
Reign
Served
Difficult Task
The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.
Emily Ratajkowski
Women
World
Responsibility
Down
Every
Our
Weighed
Attention
Ideal
Instincts
Suppress
Feminist
Owe
Move
Human
Where
Anyone
Wanting
Either
Explaining
Explanation
Apologize
Desire
Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.
Eric Maskin
Science
Valuable
Important
Plenty
Only
Also
Sciences
Goal
Lot
Predicting
Prediction
Explaining
Explanation
Much
Certainly
The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.
Eric Roberts
Me
Mind
Bit
Ease
Out
Characters
Inside
Inside-Out
Point
Outside
Part
Put
Built
Subjective
Very
Little
Explanation
Paul
Little Bit
Your
Describing
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Erykah Badu
Music
Good
Feel Good
Medicine
Type
Kind
Hopefully
Some
Something
Feel
Antidote
Just
Explanation
I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
Gary Ross
Life
Me
Experience
Few
Backed
Franchise
Way
Hunger
Hunger Games
Directors
Results
Remarkable
Supportive
Beyond
Make
Empowered
Making
Movie
Wanted
Loved
Happiest
Explanation
Manner
Requires
Games
Professional
Professional Life
Film
Ever
War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
War
Responsibility
Seen
Settings
Wild
Danger
Out
High
One-Dimensional
Adrenalin
Simply
Feel
Because
Wade
Inevitably
Leaves
Go
Sake
Provide
Bunch
Reporters
Often
Tug
Story
Which
Places
Explanation
Who
Zone
Core
I was very conscious of the world being this very crazed place that demanded explanation. I didn't see a whole lot of people who looked like me doing it on television.
Gwen Ifill
Me
People
World
Television
See
Demanded
Like
Looked
Doing
Lot
Very
Being
Place
Explanation
Who
Whole
Conscious
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai
Terrorism
Eyes
Simple
Political
Past
Own
Criminals
Purposes
Gentlemen
Governments
Very
Ladies
In The Past
Unfortunately
Explanation
Certain
Used
Who
Gangs
Now
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
Harlan Coben
Life
Good
You
Sometimes
Ending
Looking
Fall
Chapters
Always
Get
May
Rewrite
Explanation
Satisfying
Neat
Need
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