I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such which probably explains why since the end of my marriage I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

The past is malleable and flexible changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames but neither they nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.