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True – but his strenuous defense of his obvious idiocy combined with his condescension and rambling non-explanations, resulting in not-so-clever games, is pretty infuriating.
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010
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Believer- Yes, of course you're entitled to your opinion, but don't let religion teach you to be satisfied with non-explanations.
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What I find bizarre is how many voters buy into her abstract non-explanations over Obama's much more concrete approach, and how many in the insider press corps seem to think that Obama's specifics are "blunders" while Hillary's platitudes are how a campaign should be run.
Hillary Outlines Foreign Policy Agenda Of Liberal Internationalism 2009
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Then all the excuses, non-explanations and appologies, never has someone so tough needed so much defending.
Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context" 2009
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He was after all one of the most impatient of thinkers when it came to fake or non-explanations, and he was in general very aware of the danger of letting verbal ˜explanations™ get in the way of real ones.
Sticky Wants to Grab 2009
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I was hoping he'd vanish even more so than Ms. Reno has, but I hear he's got a book deal, now, so I guess we're stuck with at least another round of non-explanations for things he still can't recall.
Time to Say Goodbye 2009
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Religion teaches people to be satisfied with petty, small-minded non-explanations or mysteries, and this is a tragedy, given that the true explanations are so enthralling.
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But it is not an explanation, and is hardly more appealing than any other non-explanations (divine agency, to pick one) we might put forward.
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But it is not an explanation, and is hardly more appealing than any other non-explanations (divine agency, to pick one) we might put forward.
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Religion teaches people to be satisfied with petty, small-minded non-explanations or mysteries, and this is a tragedy, given that the true explanations are so enthralling.
Dawkins and Morality 2006
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