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• More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

  James Langevin

  Kids, Gun, Community

  "Jim Langevin, Congressman Who Organized Gun Victims At SOTU, Was Victim Himself" by Samreen Hooda, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

  Sharon Creech

  Character, Purpose, Asking

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• What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Moving, Color

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• People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  People, Brain, Human Nature

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• But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Dog, Should Have, Long

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• There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, Waiting, Doe

  Quoted in Andre Gide, Oscar Wilde: In Memoriam (1910)

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• While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

  Rahul Dravid

  Years, Firsts, Trophies

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• God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

  Jimmy Carter

  Prayer, Sometimes

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• In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

  Toshiko Takaezu

  Vegetables, Differences, Giving

  Toshiko Takaezu, Felice Fischer, Darrel Sewell (2004). “The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu”, ACC Distribution

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• In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.

  Martha Minow

  Fall, Race, Names

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• We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

  Paul Farmer

  Talking, People, Design

  "The Human Element: Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer on Designing Global Health". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• One answer is that the towns 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

  Subsidies, Favors, May

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• 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

  Spiritual, Questions And Answers, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Sep 17, 2016

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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

  Giving, Church, Sound

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• 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

  Winning, Thinking, Focus

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

  James Gleick

  Knowing, People, Google

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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

  Kissing, Gertrude, Faces

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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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

  Real, Testing Yourself, World

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• People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.

  Michael Franks

  People, Sound, Way

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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

  Years, Library, Veins

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• 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

  Life Is Hard, Miracle, Cheerful

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven answers my 'I can't' with a resounding 'He did'.

  Steven Furtick

  Heaven, I Can

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• We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

  Bob Goff

  People, Asking

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from May 05, 2014

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• 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

  Golf, Player, Thinking

  Jack Nicklaus (2007). “Golf My Way”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Communication, Years, Trouble

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