#explains

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. ↗

— Earl Browder

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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

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

— Byron White

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

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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

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

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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

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

— John McCarthy

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No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#preface #imagination