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There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

~Clive Barker

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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

~D. H. Lawrence

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We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

~Daniel Dennett

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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

~Dave Barry

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We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Another Bad Being Between Change Constitutional Distinguishing Every Explanation Good Good Idea Idea Media Minds Next People Politician Presents Represent Should Why

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If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago - what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two things? I came up with - He came up with it, of course - that all things are fakeable.

~David Javerbaum

Topics: All Things Best Came Course Created Evidence Evolution Explanation God He Logical Most Only Reconcile Things Those Two Up World Years Years Ago I Came

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And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

~David Kay

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And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very often, 'The limited data we had led one to reasonably conclude this. I now see that there's another explanation for it.'

~David Kay

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The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.

~David Ogden Stiers

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And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

~Denis Norden

Topics: Comedy Explanation Got Offer Root Then Whole Why Work You

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