#plain

I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. ↗

— Azealia Banks

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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#could #explain #feels #how #life

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#every #explain #fair #film #gave

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#complain #gay #going #likely #people

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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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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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain. ↗

— Martha Beck

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Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

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