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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.


Richard Dawkins


#because #car #design #designer #engineer

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.


Lewis Black


#absolutely nothing #because #clock #course #economics

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.


Richard Dooling


#because #computers #created #credit #default

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.


Emile Durkheim


#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.


Christopher Eccleston


#child #dad #disability #down #exactly

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.


Barbara Boxer


#build #chance #democracy #enough #explain

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.


John Fahey


#being #dispassionate #explain #greatest #guitarists

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.


David Brooks


#form #known #logical #lunacy #procedure

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.


Earl Browder


#economy #expansion #explains #forces #history

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.


Corrine Brown


#american #american public #explain #here #i






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