:" Can a deity create a rock so heavy that even the deity itself cannot lift it?

:" In We Can Work It Out, Paul did the first half, I did the middle eight.

:" I should, perhaps, Madame, tell you a little more about myself.

:" Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?

:" Okay, now on the count of three, I want you all to yell nigger.

:" May your sons be as fine and as noble and good and honest as you were.

:" For you are a holy people to YHWH your God, and God has chosen you to be his treasured people from all the nations that are on the face of the earth.

:" Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me from all the peoples, for all the earth is mine " ().

:" And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.

:" You only have I singled out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

:" We magnify you O Mother of the True Light and we glorify you O saint and Mother of God ( Theotokos ) for you have borne unto us the Saviour of the world.

:" When you deprogram people, you force them to think ... But I keep them off balance and this forces them to begin questioning, to open their minds.

# The Masked Man ( egkekalummenos ) paradox :" Do you know this masked man?

:" Some of you may ask, what is the good of working so hard merely to collect a few facts which will bring no pleasure except to a few long-haired professors who love to collect such things and will be of no use to anybody because only few specialists at best will be able to understand them?

:" One more word, I beseech you.

Vincent Canby of the New York Times was similarly unimpressed :" Though special-effects experts in Japan and around the world have vastly improved their craft in the last 30 years, you wouldn't know it from this film.

Johnny Green, head of music at MGM at the time, described him as follows :" Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're working with him.

:" When I first put pen to paper to write The Golden Bough I had no conception of the magnitude of the voyage on which I was embarking ; I thought only to explain a single rule of an ancient Italian priesthood.

:" A root cause is a portion of a system ’ s structure that ' best ' helps to explain why the system ’ s behavior produces a problem ’ s symptoms.

:" The hypothesis teaches, that every possible variety of being hath, at one time or other, found its way into existence ( by what cause or in what manner is not said ), and that those which were badly formed, perished ; but how or why those which survived should be cast, as we see that plants and animals are cast, into regular classes, the hypothesis does not explain ; or rather the hypothesis is inconsistent with this phænomenon.

:" Since classical inviscid theory leads to the patently absurd conclusion that the resistance experienced by a rigid body moving through a fluid with uniform velocity is zero, great efforts have been made during the last hundred or so years to propose alternate theories and to explain how a vanishingly small frictional force in the fluid can nevertheless have a significant effect on the flow properties.

:" JOHN KERRY has become the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination without a detailed or clarifying debate on many issues .... Now, with the nomination seemingly within his reach, the Massachusetts senator must begin to more fully explain where he stands on the major challenges facing the country.

:" To discover that within myself which I * must obey, to gain some awareness of the law which operates in the organic world of the internal world, to feel this internal world as an organic whole working out its own destiny according to some secret vital principle, to know which acts and utterances are a liberation from obstacles and an accession of strength, to acknowledge secret loyalties which one cannot deny without impoverishment and starvation -- this is to possess one's soul indeed, and it is not easy either to do or to explain.

:" to emphatically and publicly explain that the British government and its allies have no wish to enslave Germany, but only to remove Hitler, Himmler and their accessories "

:" Expert testimony reveals that since the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, science has been limited to the search for natural causes to explain natural phenomena ....

In a 1980 article, Wehler mocked those who sought to explain Nazi Germany as due to some defect in Adolf Hitler's personality by commenting :" Does our understanding of National Socialist policies really depend on whether Hitler had only one testicle ?... Perhaps the Führer had three, which made things difficult for him-who knows ?... Even if Hitler could be regarded irrefutably as a sado-masochist, which scientific interest does that further ?... Does the " Final Solution of the Jewish Question " thus become more easily understandable or the " twisted road to Auschwitz " become the one-way street of a psychopath in power ?".

:" Whenever you are inclined to explain a feature of science in terms of probability and confirmation, take a moment to see how the issue would look in terms of complexity and success "( Kelly, 2000a )

:" Listen, Mr. Policeman ," I started to explain,

:" I should like to ask Mr. Holbrooke to explain why, for all his patriotism, he has recently thought fit to publish several of his works under the name of Jean Hanze, and, in addition, to circulate a pamphlet puffing their soi-disant BELGIAN COMPOSER!

:" The project members reasoned that they had several dozen aerial observations that they could not explain, many of them by military pilots and scientists.

:" You've heard me speak of Mr Poirot?

:" It is this villainous sea that troubles me!

:" It may suffice for me to say that while they were in the midst of their journey they fell into the hands of pirates.

:" I devoured Lamark ... his theories delighted me ...

:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".

White :" Being the owner of dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor.

:" Come, tell me how you live ," I cried,

:" Come, tell me how you live!

:" Many will say to me, ' Lord, Lord, did we not in your name eat and drink and do powerful deeds?

:" Many will say to me on that day, ' Lord, Lord, did we not in your name eat and drink and prophecy and drive out demons?

In The Revenge of Gaia ( 2006 ), where he puts forward the concept of sustainable retreat, Lovelock writes :" A television interviewer once asked me, ' But what about nuclear waste?

:" Give me to drink mandragora ...

:" Would you mind, Mulla ," the neighbour asked, " lending me your donkey today?

:" Hateful for me are the mountains,

:" A year on the water was enough for me, so I returned to college.

:" There were three bills of particular emotional importance to me: the Peace Corps, a disarmament agency, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

:" I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine ... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin — of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas.

:" One of them told and confessed, without any pressure, that she had killed thirty children by bleeding them ... she confessed more, saying she had killed her own son ... Answer me: does it really seem to you that someone who has killed twenty or thirty little children in such a way has done so well that when finally they are accused before the Signoria you should go to their aid and beg mercy for them?

:" Moses said to God, ' Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, " The God of your fathers has sent me to you ," and they ask me, ‘ What is his name ?’ Then what shall I tell them ?” God said to Moses, “ I AM WHO I AM " — Exodus 3: 13-14 ( New International Version ) ( see Tetragrammaton ).

:" Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog ... Well, replace the word ' kinda ' with ' repeatedly ' and the word ' dog ' with ' son '.

:" 16 And Samuel said, ' Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?

:" Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north ; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

:" Hateful for me are the mountains,