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explain

«If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough»
«Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.»
«Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking»
Author: Jerome Lettvin | Keywords: explain, invented, require
«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.»
Author: Muhammad Ali (Activist, Boxer) | About: Friends, Friendship | Keywords: explain
«Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.»
«An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Ideas | Keywords: explain, ghost, Ghost in, spoken
«Friendship Never explain / your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.»
«I'll explain, and I'll be sure to use small words so that you'll be sure to understand. You wart-hog-faced-buffoon!»
«All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.»
«A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.»