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Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

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When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be. ↗

— George Saunders

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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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The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. ↗

— Leo Burnett

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The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. ↗

— Michael Vick

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The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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If you are explaining, you are losing. ↗

— J. C. Watts

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