#explanation

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, 'fundamentalist, primitivist' people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example. ↗

— Chris Morris

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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. ↗

— Kary Mullis

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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy. ↗

— Denis Norden

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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. ↗

— Gary Ross

#beyond #directors #empowered #ever #experience

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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