Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: answer :: question

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Quoted In The Grove:
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? … And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.
~Olivia Robertson

I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
~Aimee Mullins

EndQuote: And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
~Pablo Picasso

We’re terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don’t know.
~Kathryn Schulz

Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies.
~Oliver Goldsmith

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To President Biden’s credit, I mean, he kind of ‒ he says, if you mess up, fess up. And if you, you know, don’t have the answer, don’t make it up. And I follow that.
~Jen Psaki (Press Sec)

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I don’t need anyone creatively to tell me how I’m supposed to be. Only I know the answer to that. Only I know what I would say. That’s always been my outlook. I haven’t really worried about rubbing people wrong because I only know how to be Bray. And Bray is always going to be Bray.
~Bray Wyatt (WWE)

I only answer to two people, myself and God.
~Cher

Does what you think of you determine your worth?
~Janet Jackson

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If knowing answers to life’s questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables ‒ of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.
~Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

It’s not the things you don’t know that trip you up. It’s the things you think you know, but you don’t. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.
~Claudia Gray

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
~Gertrude Stein

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Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.
~Anthony Bourdain

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
~Margaret Mead

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
~Rachel Naomi Remen

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Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.
~Gutzon Borglum

So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
~Edmund Spenser

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.
~Vera Farmiga

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The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.
~Ruth Benedict

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.
~Criss Jami

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
~Brian Greene

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To the extent that you can find ways where you’re making predictions, there’s no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don’t know the answer to in advance.
~Nate Silver

Gods don’t answer letters.
~John Updike

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
~George Meredith

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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
~J K Rowling

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone’s personal philosophy.
~Jim Rohn

Being slick is not the right answer.
~Steve Jurvetson

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Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.
~Sharyn McCrumb

When I’ve lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need I already possess ‒ deep inside. I am naturally creative, resourceful and whole. If I consult my invisible compass, I’ll know what to do.
~Steve Goodier

There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.
~Ray Dalio

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Man seeks answers from afar
Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets
but has not even gone into the silence of his being
~Rajneesh

When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate “why,” that great “why” is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.
~Eugene Ionesco

For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you have to do is experience life instead of only reading about it. Reading is very important, but it’s not enough. After reading, you have to take some decisions in your hands and move forward and be the human being that you are…
~Paulo Coelho

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
~Epictetus

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn’t: It was basically a semantics game.
~Talulah Riley

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this ‒ what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as ‘mankind’s need for metaphysics.’
~Bryan Magee

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There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to face the consequences, whatever they are.
~Jimmy Sangster

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
~Neil Gaiman

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
~Anne Rice

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I don’t like to think of myself as just a person. I don’t think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I’ll exist again after I die here, so I don’t exactly know what I am. I don’t think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I’m not like you.
~Bray Wyatt

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, “What is he?” the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.
~Kenneth E Boulding

It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single expression which he utters of and upon himself is decisive. It lays down the basis upon which all judgment of him is to be formed. From that moment all the acts of his life must correspond to the answer given by him.
~Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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I do not know who I am, where I am going ‒ and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.
~Sylvia Plath

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside.
~Tenzin Palmo

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.
~Bob Dylan

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Posted From The Grove

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don’t know the answer.
~Keith Best

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
~Ben Aaronovitch

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There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion.
~Djemal Pasha (Ottoman military)

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth.
~Richard M Nixon

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
~Ronald Reagan

And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage… Second, were we truly men of judgment… Third, were we truly men of integrity… Finally, were we truly men of dedication?-
~John F Kennedy

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When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It’s an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president’s response, he hasn’t killed anyone yet.
~Rand Paul

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners’ objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.
~William J Brennan

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.
~Tony Judt

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If one were to ask. . .”What is slavery?” and I should answer in one word, “murder,” my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: “What is property?” may I not likewise answer, “theft”. . .?
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, “How can one have prosperity without commerce? How can one have commerce without luxury? How can one have luxury without corruption? How can you have corruption without the end of the Republic?” And they really didn’t know the answer.
~Pete Seeger

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven’t.
~Conrad Black

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.
~William Pfaff

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The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them with a rebuke. If you invoke the law at all, it should be to protect the one who gives the offence, and not the one who takes it. Now, it seems, it is all the other way round.
~Roger Scruton

Do you want me crucified for my profanity?…Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?
~Ozzy Osbourne

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Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century’s surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.
~Susan Sontag

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative ‒ it is to be without. The answer must be positive ‒ I must replace what I have with something better.
~Mother Angelica

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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat’s prayers.
~Susan Dunlap

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
~Francois Jacob

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Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones?
~George W Bush

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It’s what I’m interested to know.
~George W Bush

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One answer is that the town’s elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
~Michael Kinsley

Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.
~Kenneth E Boulding

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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent’s objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~Elbert Hubbard

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Defiance, not obedience, is the American’s answer to overbearing authority.
~Ayn Rand

Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.
~Jack Donovan

We’re too smart to know there aren’t easy answers. But we’re not dumb enough to accept that there aren’t better answers.
~Ann Romney

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Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.”
~Jonah Lehrer

The U. S. is big chalk on the blackboard of world politics, a place where mistakes can be erased for better answers. White dust in the wind or to be etched in stone is a choice.
~author unknown

What am I to choose? “Choose what you please, as long as you choose.” There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
~Michel de Montaigne

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When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, “Can we stand anything else?”
~George McGovern

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I have wanted to believe people could make their dreams come true, that problems could be solved. However, this is a national illness. As Americans, we believe all problems can be solved, that all questions have answers.
~Kristin Hunter

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes.
~Alexander Cockburn

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient…. We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

Don’t leave a stone unturned. It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last.
~Charles Dickens

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We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer…. Law cannot save us from ourselves…. We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.
~Philip K Howard

Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple… Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with… My people who are trying to rule don’t have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn’t make you a wise king.
~George R R Martin

No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.
~Steve Miller

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That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
~John Diefenbaker

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
~Robert McNamara

Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.
~Warren Christopher

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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
~Milan Kundera

The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.
~William J Clinton

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Those people on the other side, they will answer any question about climate change by saying, ‘I’m not a scientist.’ Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.
~Hillary Clinton

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?–or, prior to that, answer me this, “Are you victimizable?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is “no.” That’s not America.
~Colin Powell

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
~Natan Sharansky

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
~Carson McCullers

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War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
~Marvin Gaye

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~Erich Fromm

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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
~Robert Kennedy

When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied ‒ particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines ‒ when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.
~Barack Obama

The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
~Raymond Chandler

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The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
~John Paul Jones

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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
~Thomas Jefferson

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
~Orson F Whitney

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man ‒ for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
~Andrew Johnson

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
~Abraham Lincoln

I would say nobody is perfect. I don’t know all the answers. I don’t want to run people’s lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.
~Ron Paul

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In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
~Thomas Sowell

Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
~David Pratt

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‘Let’s Move!’ is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn’t have all the answers.
~Michelle Obama

More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.
~Jerome Powell

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion ‒ a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long ‒ that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.
~Richard M Nixon

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Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.
~Frans Timmermans

Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world’s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
~Sharan Burrow

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Never answer a question from a farmer.
~Hubert H Humphrey

Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
~Bernard M Baruch

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I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You’re mistaken.” And, therefore, I’m thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven’t thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.
~Jonah Goldberg

In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren’t we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ‘ whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.
~Jonah Goldberg

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail… the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.
~Jeff Cooper

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.
~Evita Peron

If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one’s self a part of it. If virtue won’t answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington’s day as it is now, and always will be.
~Henry Adams

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There’s stuff going on in the world right now, which you can’t imagine why is this happening; it’s crazy. I don’t know what the answer is, but if you didn’t have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we’d all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone’s time.
~Chris Martin

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.
~Munir Butt

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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
~Henry David Thoreau

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
~Mark McKinnon

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Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.
~Joe Biden

If you had asked people in 1929, ‘Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?’ The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
~Austan Goolsbee

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
~George Bernard Shaw

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On a certain level, I don’t think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It’s also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
~J Michael Straczynski

It seems to me that the way to remove people’s cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
~Jeremy Paxman

I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
~Eartha Kitt

I don’t think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: ‘You are going to answer my questions’.
~Lance Armstrong

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
~Eartha Kitt

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
~Hartley William Shawcross

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What is the possible benefit? Can this material [secret files] save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
~Julian Assange

It’s a very complicated landscape and I don’t think there’s one easy answer about it [Edward Snowden movie].
~Zachary Quinto

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If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them…. Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.
~Alfred Whitney Griswold

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
~Jewel

Your life can be what you want it to be… You’ll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.
~Douglas Pagels

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What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
~Ben Nelson

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
~Dan Quayle

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn’t mean the government is the answer to every fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.
~Sean Hannity

Let us not seek the answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
~John F Kennedy

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No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
~Benjamin Robbins Curtis

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don’t blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
~Peter Singer

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Whenever the media asked me how much I have received in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, my unapologetic answer was, ‘Not enough.’
~Jim Inhofe

We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.
~Herman Cain

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
~Boris Johnson

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To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should… a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.
~Thomas Jefferson

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer ‒ we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them ‒ we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
~Condoleezza Rice

Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’
~Ronald Reagan

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this ‒ not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.
~Frans Timmermans

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don’t have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is ‘Not necessarily.’
~Tony Abbott

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When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn’t anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn’t any question I will not answer.
~Jose Antonio Vargas

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.
~Pope Clement I

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Today, the mass audience (the successor to the “public”) can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.
~Marshall McLuhan

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There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
~Clayton M Christensen

The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
~George McGovern

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
~Leslie Jamison

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The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
~Thomas Friedman

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.
~Robert Waterman McChesney

I always get asked how fast I can run and the answer is ‘faster.’
~Mirinda Carfrae

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Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that ‘poverty breeds wars’ … But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country’s freedom is the degree of its prosperity.
~Ayn Rand

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, ‘How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?’ The answer is, ‘I was young once.’ End of answer.
~Charles Krauthammer

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Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.
~Michael Rapino

I’m not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
~Tom Hayden

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We need to start seeing privacy as a commons ‒ as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.
~Evgeny Morozov

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
~Charles de Gaulle

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The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
~Madeleine Albright

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If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.
~J L Mackie

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

…an intemperate, mean-spirited, lying bully. If a man like that asked you for permission to marry your daughter, what would your answer be? If it’s no, I think it’s obvious we shouldn’t give him the most powerful office on the face of the Earth.
~Richard Dreyfuss

I’m answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one’s mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I’m going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country.
~George W Bush

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There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
~Bianca Jagger

There’s no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.
~Jenny Han

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
~Leo Tolstoy

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I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.
~John Amery

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
~George Armstrong Custer (pre-Little Big Horn)

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But when will our leaders learn ‒ war is not the answer.
~Helen Thomas

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic ‘No.’
~Boyle Roche (Irish House of Commons)

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.
~Charles B Rangel

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
~Sheryl Crow

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Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I’m inclined to say and I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two… But… We are living; we are in Africa.
~Nadine Gordimer

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
~Denzel Washington

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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
~Kailash Satyarthi

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
~Frederick Douglass

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.
~James Meredith

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I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
~Linton Kwesi Johnson

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities
~Wentworth Miller

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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
~Sammy Davis, Jr

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The easy answer is to say that it’s a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it’s important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.
~Adrian Younge

I wanted to be an attorney. My mother would say I never stopped talking. I always had a lot of questions to ask, and I was never satisfied with the answer. A lot of things I wasn’t satisfied by.
~Claudette Colvin (arrested age 15, refused to give up seat to a white woman on a crowded bus)

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Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you were from… Republican women picked Oprah as the most admired woman, followed by Sarah Palin. Democratic women said Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman, followed by Oprah Winfrey. Independents also picked Oprah Winfrey, followed by Diane Sawyer.
~Michel Martin

It’s interesting because I don’t ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.
~Shane Carruth

I get paid to ask questions I don’t know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.
~Jack Cafferty

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~PSA‒ The Answer (1:09) dated history, echoing

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~OscuroSeptember, AI Channel: ALICE IN CRAZYLAND (4:59) AI does a music video, a tablespoon of saccharine in a thimble-full of tea

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You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.
~Mark Cuban

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
~Jeff Bezos

Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
~Dave Barry

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I’ve been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can’t tell how long the Google empire is going to last ‒ but I’m pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.
~Mitch Kapor

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What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
~William E Rothschild

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Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
~John C Maxwell

Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can’t rationalize the answer, and you can’t attach the one thing to some other things. It’s just the one thing.
~Jeff Weiner

I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.
~Langston Hughes

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We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.
~Alan Autry

Production is the only answer to inflation.
~Chester Bowles

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What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you’re unreliable it doesn’t matter what your virtues are. You’re going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.
~Charlie Munger

‘I don’t need brains,’ says the billionaire contemptuously. ‘I’m brainy enough myself!’ The broker cries out in desperation, ‘What, in heaven’s name, do you want?’ ‘Goodness,’ is the answer.
~Konrad Lorenz

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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems ‒ not people; to focus your energies on answers ‒ not excuses.
~William Arthur Ward

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‘I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.’
~Brené Brown

When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they’re wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
~Patrick Lencioni

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As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.
~Pete Buttigieg

With data collection, ‘The sooner the better’ is always the best answer.
~Marissa Mayer

Smarter is always the answer.
~Samuel J Palmisano

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When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
~Carl Icahn

I don’t think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.
~Anand Mahindra

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Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there’s not necessarily a right or wrong answer.
~Soledad O’Brien

Opportunity knocks, but doesn’t always answer to its name.
~Mason Cooley

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I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
~Omar Epps

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
~Pat Sajak (Wheel of Fortune)

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I am always working on the go. I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life. Fortunately I am able to work from my home and can answer my e-mails in the morning, play tennis or kitesurf in the afternoon to keep fit and have meetings or phone calls in between.
~Richard Branson

I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there’s lots of barriers to success. There’s a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It’s very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.
~Tyler Florence

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I learned that I could not do enough work; it’s always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.
~Tobin Bell

Hard work isn’t enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It’s actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.
~Reid Hoffman

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It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.
~Tommy Hilfiger

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
~Richard Bach

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
~Tony Robbins

There is no scientific answer for success. You can’t define it. You’ve simply got to live it and do it.
~Anita Roddick

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The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don’t try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with ‘How?’ or ‘What?’ so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.
~Christopher Voss

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
~Harvey S Firestone

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A real man won’t ask or answer questions about another man’s money.
~Damon Dash

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.
Jerry Reed Is that your final answer?
~Regis Philbin (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire)

If you’re bourgeois, money is it. It’s all the questions and all the answers. Ain’t no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn’t money, it isn’t nothing.
~John Coltrane

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
~Alexis de Tocqueville

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
~Barack Obama

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Corporations must answer questions about why they should be in the blogosphere. Small Businesses need to answer questions about why they shouldn’t.
~Paul Gillin

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.
~William Safire

What value does cryptocurrency actually add? No one’s been able to answer that question for me.
~Steve Eisman

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, ‘How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?’
~Gabe Newell

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…Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.
~Paul Samuelson

You run a major risk when you assume that you alone have all the answers: You don’t, and that’s okay. You don’t have to be afraid to admit there are certain things you either don’t like to do or aren’t any good at. You reach a goal by covering all your bases, and you cover all your bases by hiring good people.
~Georgette Mosbacher

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.
~Jim Rohn

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
~Bob Goff

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Evidence of defendants’ lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.
~Alex Berenson

None of most powerful tech companies answer to what’s best for people, only to what’s best for them.
~Tristan Harris

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As a retailer, I would ask the customer, “What is it you want in life?” Whatever answer they give, I would help them to say the correct answer, or the most effective answer, for anyone ‒ feeling good.
~Wayne Dyer

The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what’s best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
~Aaron Levie

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The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is “Why should I?” And he may ask it more than once… The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers.
~Lester Wunderman

Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is whether the information about the firm is already incorporated in the price of the stock. Traders apparently lack the skill to answer this crucial question, but they appear to be ignorant of their ignorance.
~Daniel Kahneman

Question: So investors shouldn’t delude themselves about beating the market?
Answer: “They’re just not going to do it. It’s just not going to happen.”
~Daniel Kahneman

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Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office…. I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate‒except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! … My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don’t give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?
~Malcolm Forbes

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The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st ‒ are you riding your bike?
~Lance Armstrong

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Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 40 years and I still haven’t the slightest idea how to play.
~Gary Player

Nobody ‒ but nobody ‒ has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn’t so much a lack of talent; it’s a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.
~Jack Nicklaus

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I can’t control myself. I wish I could. I’ve gone to parties, I’ve gone to games, and I drive home and think, ‘God, can’t you just not argue for once? Can’t you just take what people give you and be happy with their answer?’
~Colin Cowherd (sports broadcaster)

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.
~Mike Birbiglia

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Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It’s up to me to come up with an answer.
~Aaron Judge

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.
~Gary Lineker

Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.
~Lanny Bassham

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! …Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we’re planning for the parade.
~Shaquille O’Neal

My answer is, why not? … It’s what I love, it’s what I know… I believe that I’m going to be a good coach.
~Wayne Gretzky

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Turkey hunting is my thing; it’s only once a year, but if it’s turkey season, don’t call me, because I won’t answer.
~Luke Combs

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I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.
~LeBron James

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I used to say, ‘Hey, man, what kind of a stupid question is that?’ to a newspaperman asking me heavy things right after a race when I’m still in an emotional state. Now I at least try to answer.
~Steve Prefontaine

I think, a lot of times, players get in trouble when they’re asked questions and they think they have to find a way to answer it. If you ask me a question and I say, ‘I don’t know,’ there’s really no follow-up.
~Derek Jeter

Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a ‘yeah’. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I’ve seen both sides and it’s been very educational.
~Evelyn Ashford

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People thought I was cocky because I didn’t talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I’d say, ‘I am’ because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.
~Ken Venturi

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
~Zlatan Ibrahimovic (soccer)

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
~George Leigh Mallory

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When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.
~Audrey Tautou

So to answer your question, I’m not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.
~Hugh Dancy

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I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive. Backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling… I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers… it’s human, it’s frail, it’s interesting.
~Rainn Wilson

It’s going to sound like the easy answer, but I love them both. I do! I really don’t prefer one over the other. With movies, you really dive into a character for two to three months, but then it’s gone. With a TV series, you have a constant location you’re living in, and you’re always working on the same character along with people who are like your own family. I’m lucky to have done both.
~Laura Vandervoort

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life’s problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.
~Kenneth Keniston

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.
~Tom Wujec

The hardest thing about ‘Mulan‘ is to put yourself in that circumstance and to have the answer be organic, and not be acting.
~Liu Yifei

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Well, I needed the work ‒ that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
~Gary Oldman

I know that’s a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too discouraged. There is also a different kind of challenge for women, as they graduate into their 30s. It’s hard. There isn’t as much work. You’re suddenly the aunt, or something. So, it’s a process.
~Anna Faris

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, ‘Oh, I hope they like me.’ I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
~George Clooney

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Someone said to me, ‘If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?’ My answer was then and still is, ‘If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.’
~Marilyn Monroe

If you really think you have something good, you can’t take no for an answer. You’ve got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.
~Billy Eichner

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Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
~Claire Danes

Pina Bausch’s motto was “Dance, otherwise we are lost.” She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.
~Wim Wenders

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There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don’t wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer.
~Stephen Gaghan

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer. Why are we here? What’s it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong? Those universal questions, I enjoy.
~Dominic Monaghan

I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them
~Diego Luna

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The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.
~David Mamet

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a “sock” in the jaw…. My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
~George Bernard Shaw

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured… Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that’s ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
~Michael Haneke

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.
~Marjane Satrapi

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience — to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
~M Scott Peck

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
~John M Ford

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People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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What’s really scary about the original ‘Blair Witch‘ is that it doesn’t really answer any questions, so what makes that ending so scary is you walk out feeling dirty because you don’t even know what happened. It feels wrong.
~Adam Wingard

In a gray area, you don’t have to provide an answer. And I don’t want to. I don’t want to make a comedy that’s like, well, here’s the answer. I don’t want to make a comedy that’s like, this is how to be a Muslim.
~Ramy Youssef

I found myself often asking the question, “Who deserves to be made fun of?” Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don’t think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response.
~Ed Helms (The Hangover series)

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The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone… means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
~Jean-Luc Godard

To answer the question, though: I didn’t always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
~Ben Affleck

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn’t answer them for you.
~Crystal Reed

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~Adrian Palmer: Answer (6:12) consequences

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~isaac: An Example (25:43) mental crisis and living the answer
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~Omeleto: The Fool’s Mate (11:09) turn-about is fair play, light, with a twist ending for answer

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I feel at various times in my life that I’ve been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
~Jodie Foster

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
~Biz Stone

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Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.
~Kenya Hara

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
~Ralph W Gerard

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
~John Sterling

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year’s answer might not do for another.
~Yo-Yo Ma

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I’m a trained engineer, so I’m conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it’s so subjective.
~Sushant Singh Rajput

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you’ll get a different answer.
~Orson Scott Card

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Everyone asks, ‘What’s your favorite trend?’ And I never answer that.
~Kylie Jenner

When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
~Elmer Rice

I try to answer all my fan mail. Sometimes I get questions from people who obviously only read the Wiki but haven’t read the books. I’m like, ‘But you have to read the book or you’re not going to get it.’
~Cassandra Clare

My readers ‒ and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
~Paulo Coelho

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The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.
~Leon Brown

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
~Harold Stephen Black (negative feedback amplifier enabled concert hall speakers)

The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway ‒ the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.
~Daniel Levitin

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I’ve always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, ‘What are you looking at so intensely?’ I would answer, ‘Everything and nothing.’ She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.
~Mark Bradford

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
~Joy Harjo

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While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don’t have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we’re satisfied watching sitcom reruns?
~Scott Berkun

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.
~George Steiner

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.
~Marilyn Manson

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No man’s thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes…
~Henry David Thoreau

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
~Kanye West

Play is the answer to the question, ‘How does anything new come about?’
~Jean Piaget

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I have one major problem with the internet: It’s full of liars. There doesn’t seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.
~John Lydon

Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you’re dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.
~Tracee Ellis Ross

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
~Abraham Lincoln

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I’m trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: ‘Well, what are you Chairman of?’ And I can’t answer them.
~Frank Sinatra

I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won’t get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.
~Richard Simmons

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But the eyes… will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.
~Henry David Thoreau

Women often don’t want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don’t know the answer.
~Miuccia Prada

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Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren’t really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul’s Drag Race is years and years of practice.
~RuPaul

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.
~Miuccia Prada

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You know the question: ‘How do you get to Carnegie Hall?’ Answer: ‘Practise?’ Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn’t finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn’t be like anyone else.
~Rufus Wainwright

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To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,–they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is “love disguised,” the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.
~Anna Brownell Jameson

People will ask, ‘Are you famous?’ And I always answer, ‘My mother thinks so.’
~Yo-Yo Ma

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I gotta answer the hard questions in a hard-type manner. Anything else would be uncivilized.
~Pimp C

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
~Oscar Wilde

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Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn’t even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.
~Roger Federer

You know, it’s weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you’ve never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.
~Neil Gaiman

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I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she’s great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those ‒ and the personal brand follows.
~Daniel H Pink

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn’t one giant press junket. I don’t have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.
~Miley Cyrus

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Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
~George Washington

People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they’ve woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I’ll be talking, and will be interested in what I’m saying, but then someone‒I’m convinced this what happens‒someone‒and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person‒for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.
~Dave Eggers

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.
~Lord Chesterfield

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I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn’t ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone’s there.
~Robert Smith

I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It’s lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.
~Laura Marling

Aunt Marion was right… Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
~Charles M Schulz

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I had no direction. I thought, ‘I need to make a difference in my life,’ and music was my answer.
~Gerard Way

Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didn’t have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.
~Quincy Jones

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It’s one way to answer the question, ‘What is the meaning of life?’ I feel music answers it better.
~Paula Cole

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When people say to me, ‘What do you think of rap music?’, my answer is, ‘There’s no such thing. There’s rap, and there’s music.’
~Jack Jones

Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it’s a less valid form of music. My answer now is that you either feel it or you don’t. If metal doesn’t give that overwhelming surge of power that make the hair stand up at the back of your neck, you might never get it, and you know what? That’s okay, because judging by the 40,000 metalheads around me we’re doing just fine without you.
~Sam Dunn

The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.
~Sharon Jones

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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I’ve come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it’s not one particular set of sounds.
~Carlisle Floyd

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
~John Hench

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
~Cyndi Lauper

The danger with the internet is that you don’t need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.
~Pete Seeger

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When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.
~Yungblud

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’
~Aaron Copland

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn’t my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
~David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

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It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
~W C Fields

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What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself,
~Thomas à Kempis

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It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.
~Anodea Judith

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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
~Learned Hand

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When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there’s usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you’re going to get it. When you pose questions you don’t have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.
~Esther Hicks

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Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.
~Albert Camus

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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
~Otto Weininger

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Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
~Bernard Meltzer

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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
~Norman Mailer

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I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it’s necessary. Over my life’s journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.
~Sonali Bendre

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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
~Jane Austen

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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
~Roald Dahl

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~Elion: Sarah McLachlan • Answer (3:55)

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~sabryhr: Backstreet Boys • The Answer To Our Life (3:19)

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~earMUSIC: Alan Parsons Symphonic Project • Don’t Answer Me (3:53)

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~mario sor: Berthe Morisot • Answer Me My Love by Joni Mitchell (3:33)

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Barenaked Ladies: Call And Answer (4:02)

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~Ed Sullivan Show: The 5th Dimension • One Less Bell To Answer (2:55)

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~Columbia Mills: You’re Not the Answer (5:10)

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~Duran Duran: Michael you’ve got a lot to answer for (4:10)

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~michael hunt: god, you’ve got a lot to answer for (5:42)

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~Sophie Hunger: Love Is Not The Answer (3:10)

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~Lovers Electric: If Love Is Not The Answer 3:47)

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~thumper: Barbra Streisand • Answer Me (3:18)

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~Elton John: Answer In The Sky (4:03)

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~Lord Byron

I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.
~Lester Levenson

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Love is the answer.
Now, what is your question?
~Kevin Williams

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
~Lily Tomlin

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
~Nancy Willard

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Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
~Nicole Krauss

We had one thing in common ‒ we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn’t answer everything and it’s like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.
~John Lennon

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You’re like a wrong answer to the unpredictable question.
~Mrunjan

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
~Audre Lorde

Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
~Dag Hammarskjold

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The most important thing is sensitivity. Many people have sex and don’t feel anything, and that seems kind of sad to me. The answer is not necessarily the avoidance of sex, but learning to be sensitive and to love and to care.
~Frederick Lenz

Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks… Love is the language, that every heart speaks.
~Helen Steiner Rice

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An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask… The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
~Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
~Michel de Montaigne

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?
~Alethea Kontis

The obvious choice isn’t always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don’t stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don’t feel guilty about keeping it.
~Eliezer Yudkowsky

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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
~Amelia Barr

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
~Pearl S Buck

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I ask a lot because I’m very curious ‒ especially about ex-girlfriends. I’m pretty good at getting the answers, too.
~Brittany Murphy

I could really make a song of hurt, because I’ve been hurt by a lot of men. I’m talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don’t answer my calls.
~Cardi B

I’m kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers Or doesn’t answer
~Hillary Scott

Stay humble. Always answer your phone ‒ no matter who else is in the car.
~Jack Lemmon

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Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

It couldn’t be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn’t really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don’t gravitate to it.
~Jon Hamm

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
~Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

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It’s amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.
~Chris Young

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When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
~Erma Bombeck

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
~Erica Jong

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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
~Charles Dickens

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she’ll answer any questions you have about it.
~Courtney Love

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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‘Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.’
~Marilyn Monroe

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can.
~John Lennon

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don’t want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.
~Rory McIlroy

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It’s not about me, it’s about my family. You don’t answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
~Jaclyn Smith

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Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It’s great.
~Jessica Hahn (of Jim Bakker scandal)

I’m often asked what it was like to have a famous mother. I always answer that I really don’t know. I knew her first as my mother, and then as my best friend. Only after that did I understand that she was an actress, and with time that she was truly an exceptional actress.
~Sean Hepburn Ferrer

My dad is 20 years older than my mom. Growing up, I felt like he knew everything. I felt like, for every question I had, he had an answer.
~Catriona Gray

I don’t have any brothers and sisters, so I always relied on my parents to guide me or answer questions.
~Daryl Davis

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we’d answer them in English.
~America Ferrera

I don’t care what you do ‒ baseball or politics ‒ George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years ‒ Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.
~Andy Van Slyke

I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I’m spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be ‘with my family.’
~Elisabeth Hasselbeck

‘First things first’ might be a cliche, but it’s a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.
~Stacey Abrams

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Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.
~Penelope Leach

There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it’s possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you’re reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.
~Libby Copeland

I have a son, who is a… not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
~James D Watson

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See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.
~Ole Hallesby

I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.
~Donald Woods Winnicott

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O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don’t laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short. Of course we’re not laughing . . . . Nobody laughs at the sight of their own blood.
~Naomi Weisstein

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Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
~Jose Bergamin

Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.
~Kangana Ranaut

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.
~Gertrude Stein

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A lot of women need to know that they don’t have to conform, they don’t have to take no for an answer.
~Gabriella Wilson

When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?
~Matilda Joslyn Gage

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is ‘How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?’ I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
~Josefina Vazquez Mota

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I’m not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.
~Frank Pittman

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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?
~Sigmund Freud

After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate
~Mel Gibson

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I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.
~Bernhard Schlink

All of childhood’s unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.
~Maya Angelou

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Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer–a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.
~Bill Ayers

We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can’t even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.
~Barbara Coloroso

The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
~Margaret Mead

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What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
~Alison Gopnik

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
~Zora Neale Hurston

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The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
~Leon Edel

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Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things you can say, “Can I yo-yo? Can I juggle?” Usually you have a pretty small window in which to get your answer. Stand-up is different. You can’t do stand-up for one night and say, “Am I a funny stand-up comedian?” In two months or two years you’ll start to realize it.
~Demetri Martin

English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.
~Mary Heaton Vorse

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Math was always my bad subject. I couldn’t convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
~Calvin Trillin

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
~Theodore Roosevelt

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
~Bill Vaughan

They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don’t stop building them.
~Johnny Carson

When will I learn? The answers to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle. They’re on TV!
~Matt Groening

A cis-immunologist will sometimes speak to a trans-immunologist; but the latter rarely answers.
~Niels Kaj Jerne

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The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
~George Carlin

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
~Matthew McConaughey

Two reasons I do. I like talking to someone smart, and I mostly listen when someone smart is talking. It’s only love or science when the answers don’t match.
~author unknown

Don’t keep a man guessing too long ‒ he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.
~Mae West

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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
~James Thurber

I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.
~Yogi Berra

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
~Marie Corelli

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
~Karl Pilkington

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life’s questions is often in people’s faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people’s faces. People’s faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
~Amy Poehler

My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
~Dave Chappelle

I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that’s your answer.
~Jerry Seinfeld

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People from New York have been calling, to see if I’m still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.
~Maurice Sendak

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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
~Albert Camus

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: ‘Come with me.’And I will answer: ‘Yes.
~Mary MacLane

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Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it’s very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they’ve lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it’s most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.
~Keith Ablow

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A new question has arisen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living…No sensible answer can be given to the question…because the question does not make any sense.
~Erich Fromm

There is nothing there ‒ no soul ‒ there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer ‒ your answer; not my answer ‒ because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.
~U G Krishnamurti

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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
~Olivia de Havilland

Guess now who holds thee?’–‘Death,’ I said. But,
there,
The silver answer rang, . . . ‘Not Death, but Love.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
~Hermann Hesse

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Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
~Gertrude Stein

What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That’s why mankind must change the end of the road!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
~Jacques Lipchitz

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
~Carlos Castaneda

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Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.
~Aaron Swartz (internet pioneer/activist, suicide @ge 26)

I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn’t come out and wouldn’t answer the phone.
~Michael Stipe [Kurt Cobain, suicide @ge 27)

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
~Wendell Pierce

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)

How does the subconscious mind work? Is it independent of the conscious mind? Is it programmed by experiences or instructions? Many questions come up, but the one answer is common: if you can access the subconscious, then you can reprogram it, period!
~Keith Barry

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
~e e cummings

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Sentry
Honoring the memory of the Cat and feline protagonist, Obi

© Greg Thweatt

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Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today…. In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.
~John Dos Passos

You can’t say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
~Amin Maalouf

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What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence–his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms–in short, his hereditary cowardice…. There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.
~H L Mencken (praise by way of sharp barbs)

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
~W H Auden

The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.
~Philippa Gregory

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Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
~Soren Kierkegaard

In the absence of an answer that is complicated and sort of maybe troubling, we sometimes settle for the easy answer. It’s easier to believe that my discomfort comes from some fact that is being hidden from me.
~Kevin Young

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
~Cesare Pavese

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
~H L Mencken

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
~Dr Seuss

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.
~Archibald MacLeish

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.
~Terry Pratchett

There are no easy answers, there’s only living through the questions.
~Elizabeth George

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I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.
~Madeleine L’Engle

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.
~Jacque Fresco

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
~James Stephens

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
~Solomon Ibn Gabirol

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
~John Ruskin

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~Naguib Mahfouz

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
~Eugene Ionesco

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The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
~Paul Tillich

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
~Richard Feynman

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Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.
~Starhawk

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
~Bruce Lee

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
~Charles Caleb Colton

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
~Vladimir Lenin

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
~Mark Twain

To get answers, ask questions; but to get good answers, ask good questions.
~Israelmore Ayivor

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There’s no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
~Frank Herbert

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If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.
~Cillian Murphy

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
~William Shakespeare

You can ask me anything you want. That doesn’t mean I’m going to answer you.
~Jerry Lewis

It is not every question that deserves an answer.
~Publilius Syrus

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.
~Gina Gershon

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.
~George H W Bush

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Solutions are not the answer.
~Richard M Nixon

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
~Bono

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
~Viktor E Frankl

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And the maestro surely wielded the chairman’s baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
~Alan Blinder

When the question is either/or, the answer is almost always both/and.
~Bill Crawford

On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.
~Yehuda Ber

Now, here’s a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability ‒ terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons ‒ or should we focus on global climate instability ‒ droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here’s the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.
~Van Jones

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you’ll find out when you need to — find out both the questions and the answers.
~Thomas Merton

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I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to suppose that, in order to decide any moral question, they have to find an indubitable first principle from which they can deduce an answer.
~Theodore Dalrymple

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions ‒ it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
~John Osborne

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!
~Douglas Adams

I don’t think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
~Jon Meacham

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
~Max Frisch

‘Maybe.’ There’s our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.
~Robert Fulghum

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@Writers Platform

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .
~Katherine Anne Porter

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don’t look for an answer because I don’t think there is one. I’m very glad to be the bearer of a question.
~P L Travers (author, Mary Poppins series)

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I’m interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers ‒ or sometimes multiple answers. It’s here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I’m also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
~Taryn Simon

For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.
~L Ron Hubbard

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I don’t write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It’s all about the process of self-examination. I think that’s what the best writing always contains.
~John Edgar Wideman

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I’m drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
~Karen Traviss

I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it’s my opinion.
~Jodi Picoult

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I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots–things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story–readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.
~Terry McMillan

The novel…creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
~V S Pritchett

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What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.
~Sjon

Literature is the question minus the answer.
~Roland Barthes

I sat with myself one day and asked, ‘Who is in those prestigious literary circles? Do they represent me? Do they appreciate the topics I write about and the style in which I write? Do those gatekeepers let a demographic like mine through the door?’ And the answer was no.
~Rupi Kaur

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
~Karl Kraus

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
~Lee Child

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Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.
~Og Mandino

A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that. The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.
~Matt Haig

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
~Wassily Kandinsky

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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.
~Michel de Montaigne

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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
~Frederik Pohl

When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’
~Stephen King

“Where do you get your ideas?” That’s the one question I’m genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is “I make them up,” they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.
~Neil Gaiman

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When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn’t know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.
~Bill Maher

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
~George Bernard Shaw

Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people… But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin.
~J E Buckrose

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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.
~Ray Bradbury

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader
~David McCullough

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
~Ray Bradbury

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The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn’t have an easy answer, and isn’t always an easy book to write.
~Jodi Picoult

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.
~Rubem Alves

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn’t come with easy answers.
~Laurie Foos

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The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth…. It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.
~William Gilmore Simms

I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.
~Joy Harjo

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He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don’t you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.
~Richard Matheson

The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen… Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day ‒ and at the start of it ‒ what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn’t writing.
~Chuck Wendig

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If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague answer, such as, ‘Poetry is the music of words,’ or ‘Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.’
~A R Ammons

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
~Arthur C Clarke

The job is to ask questions ‒ it always was ‒ and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
~Arthur Miller

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Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
~William Allin

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Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are so sure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children’s questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child’s level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.
~David Elkind

How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won’t amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.
~Haim Ginott

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they’re learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.
~Sugata Mitra

Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.
~David Elkind

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Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
~Robert Anton Wilson

Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.
~Brenna Yovanoff

Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers … it is a place where the world’s hostility to curiosity can be defied.
~Edmund Morgan

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Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra… The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
~Michael J Saylor

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life’s problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.
~Kenneth Keniston

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
~Ken Robinson

The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That’s what the schools should be doing.
~Colman McCarthy

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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
~Nelson Mandela

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. “No promotion?” was her comment.
~George Stigler

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How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.
~Thomas Paine

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
~Gary Wolf

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College isn’t the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.
~Paul Mellon

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.
~Gordon Gee

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Prompt Reminder: answer

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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God’s mind?
~Freeman Dyson

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
~Goethe

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they’re the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.
~Ayad Akhtar

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The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.
~Carl Jung

Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.
~Henry B Eyring

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.
~Stephen Hawking

We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.
~Vaclav Havel

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There are two answers to every question ‒ God’s answer and everybody else’s ‒ and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him
~Tony Evans

A priest’s life is spent between question and answer– or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.
~Naguib Mahfouz

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I’m just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don’t answer it truthfully then I’m not respected… I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.
~Terry Bradshaw

I continually ask myself if a decision I’m about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It’s actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.
~Mike Gallagher

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Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It’s something I worry about a lot, but which I don’t have the answer to.
~Emily Watson

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in ‘Night.’ I questioned God’s silence. So I questioned. I don’t have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
~Elie Wiesel

Having faith doesn’t mean I have all the answers. It means trusting God especially in the midst of uncertainty.
~Lysa TerKeurst

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.
~Elisabeth Elliot

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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That’s a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?
~E Haldeman-Julius

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‘faith.’
~Brené Brown

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I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of ‘white guilt.’ But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
~John Piper

Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God’s guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.
~Henri Nouwen

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Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy‒which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.
~Wendell Berry

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Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.
~David A Bednar

If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.
~John Ross Macduff

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Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.
~Isaac Hecker

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
~Elbert Hubbard

(Ed Note: suggest substituting someone for something in above quote for related insight)

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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
~Paul Tillich

Everyone ‒ pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist ‒ has to answer these questions: ‘Where did I come from? What is life’s meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?’ Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
~Ravi Zacharias

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
~Eckhart Tolle

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
~Anthony Hopkins

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself ‒ Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.
~Ravi Zacharias

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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
~Abraham Joshua Heschel

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
~Paulo Coelho

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it’s expressed in the sciences can’t be man’s complete answer to reality, and it can’t express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.
~Pope Benedict XVI

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I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
~Naguib Mahfouz

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, ‘What happened?’ but rather, ‘How then shall I live?’ And it’s only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
~Jonathan Sacks

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
~Francis Schaeffer

There is no answer. That’s what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
~Harry Dean Stanton

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it’s more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don’t practice or preach it, however.
~Uma Thurman

Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.
~Omar Suleiman

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The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God’s do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.
~William Avery

We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, ‘Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone’s plea. You have a part to play.’
~Joan Anderson

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I believe things happen that can’t be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
~Harold Ramis

If someone asks me whether I have seen God in flesh and blood, my answer would be that I believe that a temple priest is the God in front of me.
~Suresh Gopi

Don’t bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you’re asking the wrong questions.
~Josh Kilmer-Purcell

The truth is there are a million steps, and we don’t even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.
~Donald Miller

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My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.
~Eric Ludy

Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.
~Eddie Gibbs

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Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
~Andy Stanley

We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what’s going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It’s because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It’s harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.
~Bruce Feiler

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We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
~Charles Spurgeon

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.
~Lou Holtz

For all prayer is answered. Don’t tell God how to answer it.
~Edgar Cayce

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Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.
~Charles Spurgeon

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
~Frederick Douglass

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~Oscar Wilde

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Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.
~George Muller

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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas… He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
~Ole Hallesby

The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.
~Theodore L Cuyler

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Do I think God is going to win football games? Oh no. I never prayed to God to help us win a game. I would pray for the safety of the players. I would pray that they would do their best. I think God will answer that.
~Bobby Bowden

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.
~Sojourner Truth

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Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they’re about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about […] miracles. […] if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it’s almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.
~Richard Dawkins

If the veil of the world’s machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God’s children.
~Robert E Murray

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Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God’s will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.
~David O McKay

Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.
~Richard G Scott

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The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
~Richard Dawkins

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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
~Mark Haddon

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.
~Bill Nye

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
~Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr

Non-technical questions sometimes don’t have an answer at all.
~Linus Torvalds

From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known!
~William M Fowler

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Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.
~Jerry A Coyne

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don’t invent the answer‒you reveal the answer.
~Jonas Salk

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
~Oscar Wilde

To the extent that you can find ways where you’re making predictions, there’s no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don’t know the answer to in advance.
~Nate Silver (statistician)

Science tries to answer the question: “How?” How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster than sound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: “Why?” Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
~Warren Weaver

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Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.
~Walter Reisch

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’ I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
~Gene Cernan (astronaut)

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.
~Edward Witten

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Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to natures most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
~Stanley B Prusiner

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said;
a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
~Randall Jarrell

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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
~Claude Levi-Strauss

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~Claude Levi-Strauss

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This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist’s heaven- exact results with approximate methods.
~Nathan Seiberg

The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.
~Marilyn vos Savant

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I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
~Stephen Hawking

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.
~David Quammen

You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don’t think I ever liked it. I always found something repulsive about it. I prefer finite mathematics much more than infinite mathematics. I think that it is much more natural, much more appealing and the theory is much more beautiful. It is very concrete. It is something that you can touch and something you can feel and something to relate to. Infinity mathematics, to me, is something that is meaningless, because it is abstract nonsense.
~Doron Zeilberger (mathematician)

Philosophy is this amazing technique we’ve devised for getting reality to answer us back when we’re getting it wrong. Science itself can’t make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science.
~Rebecca Goldstein

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When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty ‒ some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.
~Richard P Feynman

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called “killed” or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn’t be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, ‘Because.’
There was no satisfactory answer.
~Jonas Salk

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
~Pablo Picasso

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.
~Nora Ephron

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If I leave my computer, I’m probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.
~Raymond E Feist

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If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.
~Grace Hopper

All you need is lots and lots of data and lots of information about what the right answer is, and you’ll be able to train a big neural net to do what you want.
~Geoffrey Hinton

A wiki works best where you’re trying to answer a question that you can’t easily pose, where there’s not a natural structure that’s known in advance to what you need to know.
~Ward Cunningham

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After an afternoon of interviewing Siri it turns out there are millions of questions that it can’t or won’t answer: How did you get my phone number? How many Siris are there? Did you have a Christmas party? Who is playing the tiny xylophone before and after each interaction? Are you spying on us, plotting the downfall of our species?
~Sara Pascoe

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually ‘Nothing; you’re screwed’.
~Bruce Schneier

New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus.
~Ray Kurzweil

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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
~Jack White

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
~James Gleick

When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that’s a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.
~Eric Schmidt

Analytics is not about sitting behind a computer and pushing enter and having it produce an answer.
~Paul DePodesta

I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
~Eric Schmidt

The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.
~Josh Groban

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No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
~Ivan Turgenev

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.
~Charles Brenton Huggins

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We’ll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we’ve lost in the last 65 million years. If we don’t find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that we’re at fault for.
~Paul Watson

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.
~Raul Montenegro

Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.
~Barry Commoner

There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.
~Barbara Kingsolver

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§ The Exercise:

noise

exploding horns
jets overhead
loud lies
burps for effect
stentorian farts
her detonating climax
paper thin walls

rocketing anger
screaming headlines
jackhammering streets
muscle-bound threats
life in the fast lane
another opinion
breaking of hearts

riddle me this
picture the answer
…silence

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them

out of tune, not of our chorus
politics that don’t adore us
slimy viscous, mad and vicious,
moist phlegm

we have met them, the upleasant
who confuse the future, past and present
we name their game, but then who hasn’t
moist phlegm

muddy thinking where they wallow
awkward facts that we can’t swallow
faulty actions fairly bellow
moist phlegm

won’t dignify with sobriquet
cognomen or epithet
reason why we call them that
moist phlegm

clueless, baseless, clearly cripples
world-wide troubles merely doubles
while bland denials smile with dimples
moist phlegm

mooing cattle love to tattle
join the fray, welcome battle
rival views appear to rattle
moist phlegm

empty gaze and drooling spittle
minds made up, refuse to settle
feeling sorry just a little
moist phlegm

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paeans & impertinence

kristofferson alone
makes the lonely cry
dylan into asking why
simon deep as the sky
cohen questing
the hopeless try
but where’s the answer
the ever-after these vivid lives

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5s ‘n 7s

paradox times enigma
conundrum extraordinaire
riddle’s missing puzzle piece
the question, half equation
wants the mate of an answer

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brazen, meme worthy posting
new, fashioned to go viral
brand news, shaped for the moment
opinions, same as assholes
answers, sounding like gunshots

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one heart beats fast for empire
leads and answers to no one
battered borders once mattered
hard arms beat down meek soft hearts
people beaten on, snared drums
votes veer, fear the last hard part
shattered norms, old conundrums

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late afternoon rain
earth’s answer to dirt
needy thirst for it
wash it clean away
both identities
rich in irony
evilly instructed
equally godly

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paradigms are paramount
examples, but not the thing
answers vary in real time
no thing (as in nothing) beats
trump in hard party card games

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pictures the victim
describes the offense
captured offender
wrote thesis on crime
mugged on the way home
joins crowd, buys a gun

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doubt everything
believing is the answer
twixt the two some truth
curiosity also
frames one trinity from both

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posters coming down
machines ready for counting
we need your answer

are you ready now
this will change your ev’rything
whisper your answer

query the AI
which jaded party endures
culture, the answer

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lies as plastic truth
answers shaped for convenience
drowning the planet

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being transparent
so strange being trans-parent
nothing apparent

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
~Thomas Merton

To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.
~Margaret Landon

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
~Voltaire

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
~Lewis Carroll

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All men are alike. If you ask any American man, ‘How are you?’ he’ll answer ‘Fine,’ even if his mother just had a heart attack.
~Joan Hackett

Put it this way: If I asked, ‘How’s business?’ and you say, ‘Boomin’ or ‘Amazing,’ I already know the answer.
~DJ Khaled

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But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.
~Robert Ruark

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
~Ernest Hemingway

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Never give up and don’t ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I’m a firm believer that I don’t worry about anything I can’t control.
~Eric Davis

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
~Douglas Rushkoff

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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
~Steve Jobs

If tomorrow doesn’t happen, would you still do what you’re about to do today? If that answer is no, you’re alive, but you’re not living.
~Greg Plitt

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Make sure to answer these (3) empowering questions everyday (preferably in writing): Q1-What am I grateful for? Q2-What am I proud of? Q3-What results am I committed to creating today? -> Start now!
~Hal Elrod

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you’ll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.
~Brenda Shoshanna

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When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer ‒ I haven’t had tomorrow.
~Elizabeth Taylor

Don’t look too far into the future, just look at tomorrow. One day at a time. Can you win tomorrow? Can you make progress? The answer is yes…
~Joe Wicks

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A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said;
a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
~Randall Jarrell

As there was never any question there was never any answer.
~Gertrude Stein

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Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making ‒ it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.
~Malcolm Gladwell

In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail–not the tail that wags the dog.
~Lewis Carroll

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Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.
~Peter Block

A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.
~Milan Kundera

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You answer anger with love. You answer anger with selflessness. The answer to anger is always the opposite thing of anger.
~Anthony Ramos

Question your answers, Truth has no anger
~Ed Roland

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A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
~Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

The person who conveys, ‘I am nothing. Make me something,’ may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea, but their answer will be in terms of, ‘I am trying to make you something because you are nothing,’ and, thus, the insult will be embedded in the response. It will be heard just as clearly as the attempt to help. And it will be hated.
~Jo Coudert

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I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.
~Marita Golden

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
~Philip Kaufman

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Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.
~Nick Vujicic

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in… Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, ‒ that we find we have (a common Nature) ‒ one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
~Dorothy Day

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
~Justin Timberlake

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How to divide ourselves fairly between ourselves and the rest of the world is the hardest question we ever have to answer.
~Margaret Warde

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
~Muhammad Ali

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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
~Henry David Thoreau

If I had it to do again, I’d ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.
Robert Breault

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If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.
~Zig Ziglar

If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.
~Andy Dunn

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A question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.
~Jacqueline Winspear

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.
~Richard Bach

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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
~Euripides

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
~Lao Tzu

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There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.
~Walter Besant

Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers ‒ because we will never have those ‒ but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.
~Rosalie Maggio

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest

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