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~ For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. ~

Bill Cosby

~ Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ~

Paul Newman

~ No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree. ~

W. C. Fields

~ The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. ~

Edsger W. Dijkstra

~ It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. ~

Ken Burns

~ The main question I shall probe is the extent to which, and the manner in which, Buddhism, as a religion espoused by Sri Lankans of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has contributed to the current ethnic conflict and collective violence in Sri Lanka. ~

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

~ The question is not what you look at, but what you see. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. ~

Rainer Maria Rilke

~ The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. ~

Claude Levi-Strauss

~ The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. ~

Og Mandino

~ Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions ~

Jerry Falwell

~ Life is a quest and love a quarrel ~

Edna St. Vincent Millay

~ The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question ~

Adolf Hitler

~ All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~

Nicholas Johnson

~ The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. ~

Brian Greene

~ Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. ~

Helen Rowland

~ It takes a highly intellectual individual to enjoy leisure. . . . Most of us had better count on working. What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement. . . . Few people overwork; plenty overeat, overworry, overdrink. . . . Few realize real joy and happiness of conquest. The basis of mental health for the average adult is more work, provided the work is not mere drudgery ~

Dr. Fay B. Nash

~ Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers. ~

Mike Fitzpatrick

~ [John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperatureóa singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple moleculesóout of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer ~

Jacob Bronowski

~ Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question "Why was it made?’ goes on and on, with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself. ~

John Muir

~ The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human heart. ~

Tanaka Shozo

~ "Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays, and ever yearn in tender fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the happy hunting ground to visit, guide, console, and comfort them." ~

Suquamish

~ The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ~

Walter Lippmann

~ The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering. ~

Tim Cahill

~ The battle for conservation cannot be limited to the winning of new conquests. Like liberty itself, conservation must be fought for unceasingly to protect earlier victories. There are always plenty of hogs who are trying to get natural resources for their own personal benefit! Public lands and parks, our forests and our mineral reserves, are subject to many destructive influences. We have to remain constantly vigilant to prevent raids by those who would selfishly exploit our common heritage for their private gain. Such raids on our natural resources are not examples of enterprise and initiative. They are attempts to take from all the people for the benefit of a few. ~

Harry S. Truman

~ The question is not what you look at, but what you see ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Think for yourself and question authority ~

Timothy Leary

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