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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

Good, Great, Teacher

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson

Success, Stupid, Why

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
Peter Drucker

Trust, Power, Cannot

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

Writing, Why, Reason

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
Steve Martin

Truth, Someone, Why

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Mason Cooley

Actual, Unlike, Fictional

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
Robert Anton Wilson

Infinite, Regress

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Thomas Francis Meagher

History, Death, Law

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
Jaron Lanier

Experience, Human, Progress

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
Paul Samuelson

Change, Criticism, Interest

Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things,' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'
Kellan Lutz

Cool, School, Gay

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.
Robert Lanza

Life, Time, Why

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?
Mercedes McCambridge

Real, Why, Name

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
Hugh Hefner

Marriage, Romantic, End

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
Andrew Motion

Fear, Light, Quite

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
John McCarthy

Until, Theory, Abandon

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
Jon Landau

Work, Time, Same

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
Frank Luntz

Emotional, Someone, Person

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.
Knut Hamsun

Men, Happy, Mind

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
Dinesh D'Souza

Last, Few, Name

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
Jackson Browne

Writing, Song, Knew

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
Phillip E. Johnson

Knowledge, Science, True

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
Jacques Delors

Good, Society, Bad

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
Marianne Moore

Nothing, Everything, Doubt

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
James A. Michener

Great, Late, Writer

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.
Bill Kristol

Trust, Forward, Why

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
Nassau William Senior

Nature, Few, Rest

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Greg Egan

Century, Caffeine, Twentieth

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
Byron White

Time, Government, Writing

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
Earl Browder

Life, History, Society

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