#explanation

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ↗

— Pat Riley

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The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in. ↗

— Eric Roberts

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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. ↗

— Will Rogers

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Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms. ↗

— Angelus Silesius

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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. ↗

— John Sladek

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Good luck needs no explanation. ↗

— Shirley Temple

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Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent. ↗

— Mark Thomas

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