#explain

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street. ↗

— David Hilbert

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I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions. ↗

— Anita Hill

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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. ↗

— James Buchan

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