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In the silence of reflection, the answers will often speak the loudest.
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Sophia Nguyen
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That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.
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John Zorn
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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Malcolm Wilson
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When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
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Robin Williams
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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Oscar Wilde
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This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.
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Curt Weldon
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
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William Ward
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At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
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Ulrich Walter
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Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
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George Wald
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
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Voltaire
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Voltaire
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The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
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Robert Vaughn
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What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.
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Lars Ulrich
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In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
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John Tuley
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
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Anthony Trollope
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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Calvin Trillin
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There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.
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Mary Timony
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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Paul Tillich
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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
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James Thurber
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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James Thurber
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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Henry Thoreau
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What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
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Frederick Tennyson
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It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.
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Helen Suzman
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It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.
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Avrum Stroll
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An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
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Levi Strauss
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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
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John Sterling
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Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
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Saul Steinberg
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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Abdolkarim Soroush
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Susan Sontag
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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Patti Smith
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The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science.
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Allen Simmons
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A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.
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Solomon Short
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I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.
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Charlie Sheen
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I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
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Tupac Shakur
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It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
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Tom Selleck
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
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Charles Schulz
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It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
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Stanley Schmidt
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I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
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Maximilian Schell
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It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.
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Anne Schaef
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Good questions outrank easy answers.
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Paul Samuelson
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When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
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Winona Ryder
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The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
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Hugh Roper
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I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
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Edwin Robinson
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Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
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Tony Robbins
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Rainer Rilke
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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
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Anne Rice
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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Vanessa Redgrave
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Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
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Ronald Reagan
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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
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Ronald Reagan
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They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
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Ronald Reagan
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We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
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Charles Rangel
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
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Thomas Pynchon
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You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.
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Herbert Prochnow
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People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.
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Michael Pitt
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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Pablo Picasso
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I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
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Martin Perl
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Everyone has the answers.
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Robin Penn
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America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.
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Sarah Palin
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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
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Major Owens
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This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.
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Marie Osmond
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I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.
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Kim Novak
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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
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Earl Nightingale
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
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Haruki Murakami
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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Christopher Morley
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Some people think technology has the answers.
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Kevin Mitnick
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I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.
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Wentworth Miller
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Patrick McGoohan
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Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
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Merrill Markoe
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We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
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Norman Mailer
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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Naguib Mahfouz
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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Loretta Lynn
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If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
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Kurt Loder
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Author:
Claude Levi-Strauss
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.
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Matthew Lesko
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There are no explanations, there are no answers.
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Jessica Lange
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Jack LaLanne
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But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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Hans Kung
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Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Author:
Louis Kronenberger
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If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
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Lenny Kravitz
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Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.
Author:
Brian Koslow
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What we do as a society is seek simple answers.
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Dean Koontz
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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Martin King, Jr.
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We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.
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Moira Kelly
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I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.
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Stacy Keach
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I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
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Dean Kamen
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Janis Joplin
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And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
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Donald Johanson
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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
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Antony Jay
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Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.
Author:
Jermaine Jackson
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.
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Doc Hastings
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As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
Author:
Doc Hastings
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Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
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Robert Half
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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
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Paul Haggis
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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Ursula Guin
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I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
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Joel Gretsch
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To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.
Author:
Joel Gretsch
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The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
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Brian Greene
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
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Robert Graves
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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A. Giamatti
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The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.
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Gina Gershon
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The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.
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Du Fu
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I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.
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Lynette Fromme
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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Felix Frankfurter
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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Author:
Edgar Fiedler
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Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
Author:
Lion Feuchtwanger
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
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Clifton Fadiman
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I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!
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Will Estes
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If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Author:
Bob Dylan
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Sam Donaldson
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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
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Richard Dawkins
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It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
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George Cukor
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It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
Author:
Norman Cousins
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The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
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Ann Coulter
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We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
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Kurt Cobain
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
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Arthur Clarke
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We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.
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Laurel Clark
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
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Chanakya
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Edgar Cayce
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The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
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George Carlin
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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Laura Bush
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When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.
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Wynn Bullock
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Author:
Elizabeth Browning
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We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.
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Charles Bronson
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Jacob Bronowski
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In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
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Sarah Brightman
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I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.
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Carol Braun
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Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.
Author:
Malcolm Boyd
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Bono
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
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Edward Bond
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I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.
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Jim Bolger
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Author:
Allan Bloom
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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Edgar Bergen
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Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.
Author:
Craig Benson
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We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
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Ruth Benedict
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I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
Author:
Ann Beattie
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A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
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Gregory Bateson
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As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.
Author:
Bernard Barton
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There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Author:
Jim Barksdale
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My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
Author:
Javier Bardem
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Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
Author:
Henry Bannerman
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The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.
Author:
Lester Bangs
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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
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Joan Baez
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
Author:
Richard Bach
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Author:
Richard Bach
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Charles Babbage
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By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
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Norman Augustine
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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W. Auden
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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Margaret Atwood
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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A. Ammons
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I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.
Author:
Paul Allen
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I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
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Andre Agassi
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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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Henry Adams
