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«The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing»
Author: Damon Knight
| About:
Theory
| Keywords:
conspiracy, conspiracy theories, explained, popularity, theories
«Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.»
Author: Harold S. Geneen
(Businessman)
| About:
Performance
| Keywords:
diamonds, explained, performance, ton
«Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.»
Author: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
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explained
«Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.»
Author: Stefan Kanfer
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Sorrow
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accumulate, accumulates, accumulating, explained, loss, possessions, sorrows
«The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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World
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And logic, Dennis, Dennis Rodman, example, explained, Laws, laws of logic, Or logic, phenomena, strange
«The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art
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define, definition, explained, explanation, irreplaceable, painting, substitute, valid
«What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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accordance, affords, closely, explained, grossly, index, indexes, indices, instincts, insufficient, myths, offered, on the other hand, origin, overwhelming, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, slightest, the Index, the Origin, unconscious
«RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that _riz-de-veau a la financiere_ is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
banker, calf, comestible, explained, humorless, known as, point out, rabbit, rabbit hole, rarebit, solemnly, toad, veau, Welsh, Welsh rabbit
«The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Conversation
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conversation, different, difficulty, explained, late, mostly, of late, ones, trees
«W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole',' he explained.»
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