If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.


Friedrich Hebbel

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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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Not everything we experience can be explained by logic or science.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than ...
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I explained to her that I wanted to ---- her,
MIKE TYSON
That could not be explained by anything other than plain, old-fashioned sex discrimination,
KIM GANDY
If earth were full of food and if it would provide comfortable shelter to all of us, work would be a...
MARIANA FULGER
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
ARTHUR CAYLEY
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
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Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he under...
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Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
BARRY JENKINS
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
What can be explained is not poetry.
W.B. YEATS
If you tell quotation to a fool, it has to be explained to him.
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it
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He was the one that explained that everything would be all right, and that nobody got hurt, calming ...
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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever...
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Love is just love, it can never be explained.
SWEDISH PROVERB
What can't be explained... is the god's will... right?
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He said only two words. But they explained everything he was doing, and everything he intended to do...
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This is a Beijing strip-tease. They should have explained this all in May.
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Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH
Shut up he explained.
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I really thought I would be able to get my job back after I explained my point of view.
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
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When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism,...
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Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually...
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The share price can only be explained by takeover speculation.
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I was kind of skeptical at first. But Chris explained it would be a learning experience for all of u...
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Robert Richards brought all the supplies and explained everything to the kids. He was very jazzed ab...
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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with ...
JOHN BERGER
We explained our situation to him.
DOUG SUTOR
He did certain things in his youth that were not OK and which he has explained,
GERHARD SCHROEDER
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
SPIDER ROBINSON
but she never asked because something so wonderful should never be explained
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained...
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts o...
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She expressed that she just wanted everything explained to her, ... She's a little afraid and that's...
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The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the s...
GAIL CARRIGER
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
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She laughed out loud and explained that was a sunflower.
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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front ...
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Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it t...
KEIR DULLEA
I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.
JOHN GREEN
Science explained people, but could not understand them.
E.M. FORSTER
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
HAROLD S. GENEEN
Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ANONYMOUS
Never put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness.
HERSCHEL M ROTHMAN
Never put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by stupidity.
UNKNOWN
The most beautiful and painful experiences can only be felt,they cannot be expressed or explained.
ANUPAMA GARG
I have spoken with Arnold Gray and explained this.
CYNTHIA DIAZ
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.
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When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
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She explained sometimes the story is supposed to be missing because it's still waiting to be written...
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Life's greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happe...
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I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black pers...
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The representative also explained that your new 2005-2006 policy term would begin on Nov. 20 and tha...
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ASH GRAY
His attitude changed in the penitentiary. And the tattoos were put on in the penitentiary. We felt t...
BRACK JONES
Those larger gains can be explained by the charter school model of a focused learning community.
GARY MIRON
A lot of things are explained by a full moon.
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In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker e...
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Hanlon's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupid...
ANON.
The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
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Being a huge fan, I decided that maybe [Earl Woods' comments] explained what seemed to be inexplicab...
JOHN ZIEGLER
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessio...
STEFAN KANFER
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
PAULO COELHO
I noticed money market rates soar, but that can be explained by month-end demand for cash.
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It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would ...
ANNE RICE
They found things in these tapes I had explained in a more benign manner.
BILL TIERNEY
I didn't hear the conversation but Mr. Stephens explained to Mr. Roberts that he had plans for me an...
CARL JACKSON
He explained his position and we differed, but it was very cordial and I think at the end of the con...
STU JACKSON
At 35, Yolanda did not want to waste a year, ... But I explained that we were reloading, not rebuild...
JOHN WHISENANT
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
UNKNOWN
I really liked how they explained all the different food groups.
ALEXA SPEER
Well, hell, no one ever explained it to me like that,
RON CAREY
Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.
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It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gest...
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That was when I began to get an idea: to write a book that explained the principles of Taoism throug...
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They have not explained if they even know how this gas is going to move. Where does 25,000 gallons g...
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My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this bec...
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We explained to her that if the list of properties is put up, there would be panic among the people ...
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The adoption curve will be fast because it's not something that has to be explained, ... People get ...
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What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the...
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My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
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Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
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That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
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A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
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We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
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Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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