"When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct."
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"Medication without explanation is obscene."
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"We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place."
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"There isnt always an explanation for everything."
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"Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post."
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"Listen. Don't explain or justify."
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"For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents."
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"To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible."
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"I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of"
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"You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline."
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"I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store."
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"Who then will explain the explanation?"
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"I forgot to remember to forget."
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"He who believes needs no explanation."
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"The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith."
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"The American vice is explanation."
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"The simplest explanation is most often the correct one."
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"What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation."
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"Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations."
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"I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them."
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