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A villain can be stylish, and his actions don't have to be explained. Heroes are boring in comparison, even anti-heroes, as there's always a justification for their bad actions.

~Dhanush

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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

~Dick Gregory

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If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

~Donald Rumsfeld

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Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

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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.

~Douglas Adams

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Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

~Douglas Coupland

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

~Edward Young

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As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

~Elif Batuman

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When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.

~Ellen Key

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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

~Emile Durkheim

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