An explanation
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Part of Panorama
- Title
- An explanation
- Language
- English
- Source
- Panorama XX (6) June 1968
- Year
- 1968
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- about man — whether he is a machine or a piece of chemical apparatus — it is because scientists have not yet succeeded in telling us what life it. If we knew what life is we could tell better what kind of a contri vance man is. — By Waldemar Kaempffert in N. Y. Times, Sept. 10, 1950 maga zine (copdpnsed). AN EXPLANATION Do you ever try to give explanations? Do you ever listen to explanations? Some people are always trying to explain things — why they’re late, why they forgot, why they failed, etc. Too much “explaining” is often an “alibi.” But many times, the explainers are just wast ing their time and their breath. Why? There gre other people who simply do not listen to ex planations. When these “other people” are one’s boss or best friend, or wife or husband or children, then you can really have a situation on your hands. One of the biggest mistakes that we can make as human beings, I think, is to deliberately cut ourselves off from other human beings — by re fusing to listen to the explanations of others. How quickly, how easily, how definitely we just clamp our hands over our ears and shout: “No, I don’t want to hear any explanations.” What a tragedy — this is how so many former good friends today find themselves so lonely, yes, even in the very midst of the so-called “population explosion” with its dire predictions for the future. — by Paul Sheehan in Philippines Herald. June 1968 19
- pages
- 19