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Explaining Quotes

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

"Maher's 'Real Time' Panelists Spar Over Brewer-Obama Altercation, Immigration". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 28, 2012.

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

"Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

"Here We Aren't, So Quickly" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

Massimo Pigliucci (2010). “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk”, p.2, University of Chicago Press