#explanation

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. ↗

— Anaxagoras

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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#explanation #feel #feel good #good #hopefully

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected. ↗

— Javier Bardem

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There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. ↗

— Bruce Barton

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The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗

— David Deutsch

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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. ↗

— George Eliot

#country #deal #explanation #great #great deal

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

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