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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

Life, Remember, Mad

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Malice, Ascribe, Adequately

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin

Beauty, Patience, Someone

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Aldous Huxley

Science, Nothing, Darkness

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Douglas Adams

Different, Late, Trees

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell

Game, Football, Baseball

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes

Hope, Judge, Others

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams

True, Words, Nor

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk

History, Movies, Between

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
Chuck Palahniuk

Writing, Done, Seems

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
Richard Dawkins

Design, Car, Himself

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp

Give, Enough, Last

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.
Donald Rumsfeld

Through, Thought, Enough

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
Dave Barry

Science, Strange, Cannot

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.
Jimmy Carter

Father, Him, Until

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
Brian Eno

Lie, Done, Thought

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Science, Cannot, Away

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
Geronimo

Government, Soldiers, Indian

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
Alan Rickman

Hate, Children, Talk

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Joey Adams

Success, Work, Once

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
Thomas Frank

Time, Government, Pretty

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.
Dennis Prager

Good, Evil, Human

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.
Dick Gregory

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
Jesse Ventura

After, Often, Lives

I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.
Britney Spears

Life, Love, Almost

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
Charles Ives

Nature, Experience, Cannot

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young

Poetry, Logic, Beyond

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
Spider Robinson

Stupidity, Malice, Attribute

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Harold S. Geneen

Away, Diamonds, Stands

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
Zahi Hawass

Two, After, Cannot

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