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

Publilius Syrus

~ Truth fears no questions. ~

Unknown

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

Eugene Ionesco

~ He who frames the question wins the debate. ~

Randall Terry

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

Brian Greene

~ There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question. ~

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~ The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ~

Thomas Alva Edison

~ Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us. ~

Zach Wamp

~ Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. ~

Steve Hackett

~ Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life. ~

Edward Fox

~ It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. ~

Margaret Mead

~ Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize. ~

Ronald Reagan

~ Life is a quest and love a quarrel ... ~

Edna St. Vincent Millay

~ Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. ~

Saul Steinberg

~ Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness ~

Rachel Naomi Remen

~ The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail ~

Marc Feigen Fasteau

~ But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus. ~

Matthew Arnold

~ There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~

Hodding Carter, Jr.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

~ As a human being, Bin Laden may have deserved compassion and even forgiveness, the Dalai Lama said in answer to a question about the assassination of the Al Qaeda leader. But, he said, "Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures. ~

Mitchell Landsberg

~ Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ~

Eugene S. Wilson

~ Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter. ~

Henry Anatole Grunwald

~ Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. ~

Frank Moore Colby

~ ... on very fairly well with Sergeant Cuff so far. But the slyness with which he slipped in that last question put me on my guard. In plain English, I didn't at all relish the notion of helping his inquiries, when those inquiries took him (in the capacity of snake in the grass) ... ~

Wilkie Collins

~ The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar ~

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

~ Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Are you asking me while I am under complete siege? You are a wonderful journalist. You have to respect your profession. You have to be accurate when you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. Be quiet! You are covering, with such questions, the terrorist activities of the Israeli occupation and the Israeli crimes. Be fair! Why do you make these certain mistakes? Thank you. Bye, bye! ~

Yasser Arafat

~ On two occasions I have been asked,\\\"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?\\\" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~

Charles Babbage

~ People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly ~

Behan, Brendan Francis

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