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There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

~Brendon Urie

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Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Big Big Things Does Einstein End Explaining Fantastic Job Mechanics Other Quantum Quantum Mechanics Relativity Small Small Things Spectrum Theory Things

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We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

~Brie Larson

Topics: Afterwards Demand Done Enjoy Explaining How Magic Show

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I traveled to Cuba with the intention of speaking with boxers who had turned down enormous offers to leave. When explaining my project to people, again and again I was met with amusement and skepticism.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Again Amusement Boxers Cuba Down Enormous Explaining Had Intention Leave Met Offers People Project Skepticism Speaking Traveled Turned Who

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One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.

~Burgess Owens

Topics: Able Accomplish After Book Did Explaining First Grace Great How Off One Of The Things Our Slavery Start Things Were Years

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Words are an imperfect medium for explaining.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Explaining Imperfect Medium Words

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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

~Charles C. Mann

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Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Again Chairman China Companies Confessions Copy Down Explaining Late Never Other Out Promising Punishment Quotations Rules Small Some Tactics Throughout Used Violate Were Why Write You

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When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Adolescence Advertising Always Began Between Coin Consultants Consumers Corporations Difference Eager Explaining Exploded Generation Happily Marketers Phrase Vast 1960S

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Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Architecture Being Different Explaining General Modern Only Repetitive Rooms Suffered Van Were

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