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At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.


Stephen Jay Gould


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My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.


Stephen Jay Gould


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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.


Max Jacob


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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.


Roman Jakobson


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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.


Orlando Jones


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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.


Van Jones


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I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.


Norton Juster


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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.


Donald Kagan


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I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.


Gene Tierney


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I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.


Oliver Kahn


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