#plains

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. ↗

— James Joyce

#devised #english #ever #explains #ingenious

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#angeles #anywhere #been #berlin #better

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. ↗

— Byron White

#decision #every #every time #explains #government

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#consciousness #explains #infinite #itself #regress

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#clear #consciousness #depend #even #existence

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. ↗

— Lucretius

#encounters #great #over #part #peril

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#bring #candidate #emotional #explains #person

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. ↗

— Steve Martin

#cringe #explains #gets #i #into

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. ↗

— John McCarthy

#explains #more #never #something #theory

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#complains #heart #his #lady #man