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~ He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers ~

~ Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy ~

~ Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down… In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy. ~

Nigel Lawson

~ A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience. ~

A. Whitney Griswold

~ By writing I create an identity for myself. Without it I wouldn't feel being anybody, thus a personality. - It's not as much a question of self-expression as a need of finding yourself. ~

Pentti Saarikoski

~ Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. ~

Ezra Pound

~ 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

~ Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? ~

Scott Adams

~ The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ~

Gore Vidal

~ Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth. ~

Daisaku Ikeda

~ Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek. ~

Alexander Eliot

~ All requests for leave of absence on account of grandmother's funeral, sore throat, housecleaning, lame back, turning of the ringer, headaches, brain storm, cousin's wedding, general ailments or other legitimate excuses must be made out and handed to the boss not later than 10 a.m. on the morning of the game ~

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~ Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms? ~

William James

~ So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? ~

Mark Poster

~ Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. ~

Ludwig von Mises

~ Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems. ~

Peter Schuyler

Gore Vidal

~ It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man. ~

HENRY S. SALT

~ Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation. ~

Soren Kierkegaard

~ In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other. ~

Mark Twain

~ Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list. ~

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

~ I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ~

Kate Chopin

~ The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone. ~

Rod Serling

~ I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose... ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Ignorance never settles a question ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. ~

Heinrich Suso

~ If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this. ~

Friedrich August von Hayek

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