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• 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

  Success, Courage, Truth

  Address to Massachusetts legislature, 9 Jan. 1961

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• 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

  Integrity, People, Brave

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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

  Truth, War, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

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• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Knowing, Self Help

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• Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sometimes, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

  Ralph Ellison

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Asking

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Wind, Walks

  1962 'Blowin' in the Wind'.

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• If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

  Edward Hodnett

  Success, Asking Questions, Mind

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• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Political, Foundation Of Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Children, School, People

  "Former reporter pushes peace studies". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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• Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Courage, Science, Asking Questions

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works.  To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing!  Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son!  Listen and believe!’

  Gerhard

  Believe, Son, Age

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• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Thinking, Questions And Answers

  "An Enchanted Life: An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick". Book by Patricia Telesco, November 1, 2001.

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• 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

  Jobs, Humility, Questions And Answers

  National Observer, January 20, 1964.

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• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  W. H. Auden

  History, Study, Sociology

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Disappointment, Heartache, Giving

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• 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

  Community, Common, Problem

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• It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Dream, Children

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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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

  Religious, Freedom, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Life, Getting Older

  "A man who won't forget Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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• So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Long, Religion

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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

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny Inspirational, Freedom, Business

  "The Divine Afflatus". New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917; reprinted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Second Series", 1920, and in "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing" edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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