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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. – Muhammad Ali	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. – Euripides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f*in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your fin' head open again. 'Cause I'm fin' stupid. I don't give a f* about jail. That's my business. That's what I do. – Casino	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. – Mignon McLaughlin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. – Jacques Martin Barzun	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis. – Colin Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing. – Jim Dodge	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts. – Eddie Myers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. – John Von Neumann	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like. – Jean Cocteau	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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