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“Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause." What makes the 'as' so terrifying? The fact that Jesus plainly links our forgiven-ness by the Father with our forgiving-ness of fellow human beings. Jesus' next remark could not be more explicit: 'If you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.'”

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”

World Art Philosophy Expression Reflection Explicit Phenomenology Laying Down

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.”

World Needs Hard Government Company Information Cameras Privacy Digital Clicks Explicit Satellites Implicit Digital World Digital Cameras

Author:Bill Gates

“One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.”

Children School Sex Causes Enemy Too Much Curiosity Obsession Radical Public School Explicit Sex Education

Author:Beverly LaHaye

“I have never written anything sexually explicit.”

Written Sexually Explicit

Author:Lynne Cheney

“He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Direct Claims Guides Thanks Explicit Beacons

Book:Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works

Source: Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works

“This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.”

Art Fall Elements Serenity Equations Chords Explicit Symmetry

Book:Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)

Source: Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)

“Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.”

“Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.”

Ifs Men Past Animal History Historical Integrating Explicit Implicit

Author:Geoffrey Barraclough

“An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical.”

Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World

“Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.”

Television Materials Internet Available Variety Explicit Forums Popular Music

Author:Tipper Gore

“One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.”

Made Problem Kids Girl Sex Details Modesty Anatomy Explicit Usage Condom Physiology Sex Education

Author:James Dobson

“Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.”

“Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.”

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.”

Knowledge Learning Understood Management Rely Possessed Rooted Unthinkable Explicit Tacit

Author:Michael Polanyi

“A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.”

Ideas War Reason Government Running Political Social Clothes Seasons Instruments Intellect Revenge Contemporary Superiors Thrive Smooth Arbitrary Explicit Utilitarian

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.”

Heart Body Life Is Blood Color Red Colour Covered Modest Pulse Explicit Implicit

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.”

Real Teach Students Grateful Exposed Explicit Learners Mit

Author:Junot Diaz

“Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.”

Unity Chaos Complexity Duality Interdependence Explicit Implicit

Book:Psychotherapy East & West

Source: Psychotherapy East & West

“The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.”

Has Beens States Century Information Blessing Empires Crucial Twentieth Century Explicit Implicit

Book:The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.”

Men Mind Mean Communication Mass Appreciation Animation Facility Explicit Versatile Disney Company Means Of Communication Animated Movies Appreciation In Relationships Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit”

Trying Buddhism Explicit Implicit

Author:Duncan Sheik

“Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.”

Mind Political Politics Wish Lines Frank Explicit Candor Frankness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.”

Streets Gender Stores Oppression Stakes Celebration Iranian Explicit

Author:Inga Muscio

“Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Wells Sometimes Enough Body Actors Language Deals Your Body Loud Not Happy Explicit Body Language

Author:Tom Hooper

“The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.”

Men Government Individual Social Rights Written Citizens Protect Constitution Bills Criminals Declaration Bill Of Rights Explicit Individual Rights Social Power

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit”

Jobs Teacher Explicit Implicit

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat to the United States. . . . This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base - by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass-destruction - constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas. . . .”

“Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit”

Imagination Explicit Vulgarity

Author:Doris Day

“In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.”

Source: Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.

“I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.”

Thinking Kind Hands Turns Scene Turn Off Explicit

Author:Colleen McCullough

“What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.”

Made Known Jerk Explicit Implicit

Book:Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

Source: Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

“When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.”

Film Moved Realistic Explicit

Author:Danny Kaye

“Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little goal setting, including the reflecting that precedes the setting of such goals. Too many marriages have financial goals but not other explicit goals. Yet the gospel is certainly goal-oriented.”

People Littles Goal Involved Including Financial Setting Settings Generosity Setting Goals Reflecting Explicit Goal Oriented Financial Goals

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.”

Doe States Moving Lying Greater Economic Policy Taxes Europe Assumption Currency European Union Euro Explicit Cosy Fiscal Policy Economic Success

Author:Gordon Brown

“You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.”

People Real Problem Would Be Past Certain Social Fantasy Defense Real Life Explicit Social Problems

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.”

Whole Would Be Understanding Possibility Raises Math Whole Life Bother Mathematician Elegant Bothered Suitable Thorough Explicit Computation

Author:Alexander Grothendieck

“A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.”

Lovers Refusal Widows Explicit

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

“The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.”

Doors Perception Phrases Explicit Doors Of Perception

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.”

May Ordinary Folks Conversion Assistance Explicit

Author:Larry Wall

“No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.”

Knows Explicit Coexist

Author:Ab-Soul

“The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.”

Wells Form Language Practice Clear Materials Speech Significant Analysis Therapy Helpful Links Packs Lacking Intervention Assessment Programmes Explicit Guidelines Summary

Author:Linda Armstrong

“Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.”

Wells Important Book Humanity Written Concepts Originals Currents Ambitious Scholarship Explicit Well Written Tacit

Author:Robert P. Crease

“Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.”

Wealth Deals Modern Program Agendas Progressive Contrast Transfers Orderly Explicit New Deal

Author:Richard Allen Epstein

“Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?”

Men Needs Wells Has Beens Use Young Language Sex Women Term Watches Gains Including Young Women Vulgar Men Women Liberated Explicit

Author:Margaret Mead

“Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at all, whether painterly, social or aesthetic. I tried to find nothing too explicit, hence all the banal subjects; and then, again, I tried to avoid letting the banal turn into my issue and my trademark. So it's all evasive action, in a way.”

Way Trying Wells Art Action Turns Choices Social Known Issues Subjects Painting Negative Touched Aesthetic Well Known Explicit Trademarks

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human Understanding and also we want to sell as many books as possible to adolescent boys.”

Want Humans Book Funny Sex Understanding Boys Humorous Sells Chapters Frontiers Explicit

Book:All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist

Source: All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist

“I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?”

Feelings Sells Magazines Empowered Explicit Pressured I Am Woman

Author:Rosie Perez

“It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.”

Difficult Term Becoming Civilization Complicated Evolve Experts Becoming More Explicit

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics

“I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.”

People Song My Own Records Interpretation Explicit

Author:M. Ward