#explain

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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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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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

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Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail. ↗

— Criss Jami

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I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' ↗

— Joey Adams

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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about. ↗

— Adele

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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

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