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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Cluster Convinced Die Existence Explanations Friends Human Human Existence Intellectual Level Materialist Me Mother My Own Mysterious Our Over Own Purely Quite Short Simply Space Time Watching Whole

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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

~Adam Hochschild

Topics: Been Better Blacks Centuries Country Explanations Haiti Hemisphere Heritage Inferiority Offering Outsiders Overpopulation Part Poorest Range Remains Slavery Supposed Two Western Why

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Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Asking Asking Questions Born Brains Children Deeply Drive Explanations Food Least Literally Questions Quite Rooted Seeking Water Were Young Young Children

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I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Believe Capability Demands Explanation Explanations Fiction Inspiration Live Offer Things World

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I don't owe any explanations for anybody I'm fighting.

~Andre Ward

Topics: Any Anybody Explanations Fighting Owe

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It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

~Ashwin Sanghi

Topics: Alternative Between Connect Could Dots Explanations Fact History Interest Interpretations Me Mythology Past Present Theology Try

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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Explanations Life Like Making Time Waste Waste Of Time

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Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Also Arises Best Disagreement Does Expected Explanations Feature How Important Light May Merely Necessarily Others Our Overcome Relations Remain Seen Something

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I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Agree Before Began Creation Disease Explanations False Felt Fill Filled Like Mankind Myths Need Now People Really Realm Religion Richard Science Some Sought Them Things Understand Used Weather

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No one faith is necessarily superior to another. All explanations are valid and in some respects when it comes to the big mysteries of life.

~Brad Anderson

Topics: Another Big Explanations Faith Life Mysteries Necessarily Respects Some Superior Valid

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