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• To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Character, Cups, Lips

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.2

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• When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

  Richard Whately

  Wise, Dog, Moon

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.99

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• Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool. ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Doctors, Fool, Dignity

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• Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.

  Peter Medawar

  Relationship, Nature, Loss

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• If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

  John Ross Macduff

  Trust, May, Littles

  John Ross MacDuff (1878). “Eventide at Bethel; or, The night-dream of the desert, an Old Testament chapter (Gen. xxviii) in providence and grace”

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• We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Two, Development, Taxonomy

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.106, Penguin

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• See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Children, Night

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• It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Blessed, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.

  Ole Hallesby

  Hands, Spirit, Praying

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Giving, Benefits

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance.

  Joan Anderson

  Angel, Caring, Acceptance

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• An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"

  John Kador

  Apology

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Corporations must answer questions about why they should be in the blogosphere. Small Businesses need to answer questions about why they shouldn't.

  Paul Gillin

  Marketing, Corporations, Needs

  Paul Gillin, Geoffrey A. Moore (2009). “The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media”, p.115, Linden Publishing

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• What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

  William E. Rothschild

  Leadership, Decision, Desire

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• Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dark, Power, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, America, United States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1458, Delphi Classics

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• I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mother, Children, Doubt

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• To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

  George McGovern

  Military, War, Failure

  1973 Lecture at Oxford University, 21 Jan.

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• Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Educational, Reading

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• A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

  Ward Cunningham

  Trying, Needs, Natural

  "Exploring with Wiki". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. October 20, 2003.

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• The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers.

  Lester Wunderman

  Communication, Emotional, May

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• When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Over You, Needs, Looks

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• I've got a phone,
  answer machine, TV set,
  computer, hand grenade
  - everything you need
  to run a business in
  Los Angeles.

  Ice T

  Running, Phones, Hands

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• The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Art, Men

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• I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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