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“A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.”
Philip Crosby
“Explaining something sensible to Lord Killanin is akin to explaining something to a cauliflower. The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.”
William E. Simon
“It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.”
Joost Meerloo
“Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua”
Marshall McLuhan
“What the HMOs can't explain is why premiums are increasing twice as fast as hospital and physician costs.”
Jerry Flanagan
“If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?”
Harold Grange
“People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.”
Wilbur N. Nesbit
“What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.”
Buddha
“I explained to her that I wanted to ---- her,”
Mike Tyson
“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”
James A. Michener
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