#explain

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#either #environment #explained #family #genes

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

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I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice. ↗

— Brian Greene

#explain #explains-a-lot #life #meaning-of-life #philosophy

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#couple #dog #explained #first #had

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#commercials #explain #good #his #job

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#actually #alan #book #came #down

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself. ↗

— Martin Bashir

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