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There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor – Frank Clark	added by Normando 4 months ago
Giving a name and to name something is to explain it and may even give power over it – Marlies van den Broek	added by Gawiza 7 months ago
A major argument against voting is that it makes no difference, and if that’s the case, let me explain that the person’s vote does make a difference. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 10 months ago
One of the biggest reasons that people don’t vote is because they don’t see the point, so I can explain that the only way they can be heard is by casting a vote. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 10 months ago
The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it. – Harry Browne	added by Normando 12 months ago
The whole point of a disclosure is to explain where you have conflicts, if you have stock and you’re not saying what it’s in and it’s this much of your personal wealth, that’s a conflict you have. The public deserves to know. – Michael Lissner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s very important to us that we include the individuals with Down syndrome in their care, if you’re doing that, you have to take your time. You have to explain things. You have to let them process. You have to let them answer. All of that takes more time. – Brian Chicoine	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have a tendency to want to blame one person, or credit one person, when in reality these are complex systems that rise and fall for often complex, random reasons that we don’t have the ability to explain – but it’s easier to say, ‘It was Joe Schmoe over there,’. – Jeff Asher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As a teacher, I’ve imagined that scene in my own classroom, again and again, at the start of each semester, I’m sure all of you in here who are teachers do this, you explain to your students on the first day a path, a pathway, to get out if a shooter comes into the school so that they’re prepared. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I explain it to my students because, you know, they need to know what they should do if the worst happens. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The GBI is investigating its own tragic operation. The family calls upon the GBI to explain what steps it has taken to preserve the integrity of its investigation of its own operation. – Enchanta Jackson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was an exciting time within astronomy when ‘Oumuamua was first discovered, and it just became more and more intriguing since the more we learned about it, the harder it became to explain its behavior, as an astrochemist, my own scientific interest in ‘Oumuamua developed as models started emerging to explain its acceleration, which implied pretty unusual chemical properties of the object. – Jennifer Bergner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When the body is warmed, the water ice restructures to a more stable and compact form, and the trapped gas can escape, this could explain ‘Oumuamua’s behavior but doesn’t need to invoke any exotic chemistry or physics. – Jennifer Bergner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery. – Tracey Lomax	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What I saw was a lifeless human being without any representation, can someone explain to me why my brother is not here, right now? – Leon Ochieng	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Can someone explain to me why my brother is not here, right now? – Leon Ochieng	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Youth are searching for that sense of belonging, that kind of grounding to explain what’s happening to them. In the last few years, more youth have had to turn to communities online. We’ve seen a degradation of in-person social skills. – Brette Steele	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The reason to continue testing – at least at some intervals after the event – in establishing those trends, part of that is really for communication purposes, to really reassure the residents that you know the level and explain to them where the levels after the disaster were as compared to some sort of a baseline. – Ivan Rusyn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The structural racism may at least partially explain our findings. For example, Black patients living in neighborhoods with predominantly Black residents tend to live close to hospitals that lack resources to provide high quality healthcare, it is possible that Black men in particular face especially high cumulative amounts of stress and allostatic load, which refers to the cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events, potentially leading to a higher death rate after surgery among this population. – Yusuke Tsugawa	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While other work has also linked cannabis with CAD, there are several potential confounders that may explain this relationship. Our MR analysis suggests this relationship may be directly causal. – Ishan Paranjpe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am going to try to help explain to the American people that defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I speak Mandarin and Cantonese. They can use their mother tongue and talk to me. I will try to explain to them about the law and about the safety of firearms. – David Liu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m feeling positive and optimistic, but still at the same time unapologetic. I don’t feel like I need to explain myself as much, but I feel very responsible, still. The ‘Queen of Me’ title for the album couldn’t be more fitting for where I’m at in my own mind. – Shania Twain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Because the Russian military has been such a failure in Ukraine, it is helpful to explain this as a war with NATO rather than Ukraine. This also helps justify whatever steps Putin might take next, and Russia has been very keen to play up the idea that this might mean going nuclear. – Roman Pilipey/Getty Images Herbst	Found on CNN 1 year ago

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor

– Frank Clark

added by Normando
4 months ago

Giving a name and to name something is to explain it and may even give power over it

– Marlies van den Broek

added by Gawiza
7 months ago

A major argument against voting is that it makes no difference, and if that’s the case, let me explain that the person’s vote does make a difference.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

One of the biggest reasons that people don’t vote is because they don’t see the point, so I can explain that the only way they can be heard is by casting a vote.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

– Harry Browne

added by Normando
12 months ago

The whole point of a disclosure is to explain where you have conflicts, if you have stock and you’re not saying what it’s in and it’s this much of your personal wealth, that’s a conflict you have. The public deserves to know.

– Michael Lissner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s very important to us that we include the individuals with Down syndrome in their care, if you’re doing that, you have to take your time. You have to explain things. You have to let them process. You have to let them answer. All of that takes more time.

– Brian Chicoine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have a tendency to want to blame one person, or credit one person, when in reality these are complex systems that rise and fall for often complex, random reasons that we don’t have the ability to explain – but it’s easier to say, ‘It was Joe Schmoe over there,’.

– Jeff Asher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a teacher, I’ve imagined that scene in my own classroom, again and again, at the start of each semester, I’m sure all of you in here who are teachers do this, you explain to your students on the first day a path, a pathway, to get out if a shooter comes into the school so that they’re prepared.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I explain it to my students because, you know, they need to know what they should do if the worst happens.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The GBI is investigating its own tragic operation. The family calls upon the GBI to explain what steps it has taken to preserve the integrity of its investigation of its own operation.

– Enchanta Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was an exciting time within astronomy when ‘Oumuamua was first discovered, and it just became more and more intriguing since the more we learned about it, the harder it became to explain its behavior, as an astrochemist, my own scientific interest in ‘Oumuamua developed as models started emerging to explain its acceleration, which implied pretty unusual chemical properties of the object.

– Jennifer Bergner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the body is warmed, the water ice restructures to a more stable and compact form, and the trapped gas can escape, this could explain ‘Oumuamua’s behavior but doesn’t need to invoke any exotic chemistry or physics.

– Jennifer Bergner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery.

– Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I saw was a lifeless human being without any representation, can someone explain to me why my brother is not here, right now?

– Leon Ochieng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Can someone explain to me why my brother is not here, right now?

– Leon Ochieng

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Youth are searching for that sense of belonging, that kind of grounding to explain what’s happening to them. In the last few years, more youth have had to turn to communities online. We’ve seen a degradation of in-person social skills.

– Brette Steele

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reason to continue testing – at least at some intervals after the event – in establishing those trends, part of that is really for communication purposes, to really reassure the residents that you know the level and explain to them where the levels after the disaster were as compared to some sort of a baseline.

– Ivan Rusyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The structural racism may at least partially explain our findings. For example, Black patients living in neighborhoods with predominantly Black residents tend to live close to hospitals that lack resources to provide high quality healthcare, it is possible that Black men in particular face especially high cumulative amounts of stress and allostatic load, which refers to the cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events, potentially leading to a higher death rate after surgery among this population.

– Yusuke Tsugawa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While other work has also linked cannabis with CAD, there are several potential confounders that may explain this relationship. Our MR analysis suggests this relationship may be directly causal.

– Ishan Paranjpe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am going to try to help explain to the American people that defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I speak Mandarin and Cantonese. They can use their mother tongue and talk to me. I will try to explain to them about the law and about the safety of firearms.

– David Liu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m feeling positive and optimistic, but still at the same time unapologetic. I don’t feel like I need to explain myself as much, but I feel very responsible, still. The ‘Queen of Me’ title for the album couldn’t be more fitting for where I’m at in my own mind.

– Shania Twain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because the Russian military has been such a failure in Ukraine, it is helpful to explain this as a war with NATO rather than Ukraine. This also helps justify whatever steps Putin might take next, and Russia has been very keen to play up the idea that this might mean going nuclear.

– Roman Pilipey/Getty Images Herbst

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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