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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.


Sigmund Freud


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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.


Abdolkarim Soroush


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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.


Abdolkarim Soroush


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It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.


Tris Speaker


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


Britney Spears


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Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.


Eliot Spitzer


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A lot of people only see me as villains.


Terence Stamp


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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.


Edward Steichen


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I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.


Anne Stevenson


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The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.


William Graham Sumner


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