Explicated Quotes

#1. Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.

Jurgen Habermas

#2. [T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

Charles Baxter

#3. The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled
Was convincing women that they looked
Better in their makeup

Macklemore

#4. It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

W.S. Gilbert

#5. Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair ... it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

Joe Dante

#7. If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Toni Morrison

#8. The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

Candace Bushnell