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If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Alan Perlis

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Ayn Rand

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Alexei Sayle

There is something in me I cannot quite explain - it is like peace infected with the sweetest pain.

Love

All I knew was that in a way I couldn't explain, his hug matched his stare.

Love

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Arthur Erickson

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Kit Reed

Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a European Union and globalization are happily shredding su...

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the look of a 1980s male model. Flailing his arms, he urges them to sing their anti-Catholic songs louder. The irony is o...

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten better over time, the English and Italians developed the tradition of making ape noises when bl...

How Soccer Explains the World

How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and will live happily ever after, no matter what travails life might throw in th...

The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World

The great masters of modern analysis are , , and , who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. is perfect both in form and matter, he is careful to explain his procedure, and though his arguments are genera...

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Three years with Claudia had taught Ruso that when a woman said something did not matter and refused to tell you what it was, it usually mattered a great deal—to her, if not to you. Frequently her way of punishing you for not knowing what it was in...

Terra Incognita

Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties. Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept these postulates as your Faith, whic...

Unholy Domain

Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my...

Richard Ford

I love you... I love you without needing you, I love you without wanting you. I love you for being you. Because, you see, needing you is a necessity; and wanting you is a desire. But being, is as it is. And so, you as you are, this as it is, is as it...

Israel S. Dudley

The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it be matter in the abstract, simply as it is thought, or after it has taken form, is empirica...

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything changed after AIDS,” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.

Consumed

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

The Constant Outsider

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

Elites and Masses

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

A Great and Terrible Beauty