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«There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.»
«It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.»
Author: Harold S. Geneen
(Businessman)
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Performance,
Words
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explanations, immutable, performance, promises
«If the men of our time had their way, God would be on the carpet all the time offering soothing explanations to angry questions»
«?Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.?»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
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«We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying»
«I fear explanations explanatory of things explained»
«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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an explanation, considered, deep, explanations, mystical, superficial
«Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong»
«Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order - never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.»
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