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• Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

  Scott Adams

  Simple, Religion, Trying

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• It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could be used to justify killing one-year olds, or any heaven-bound believer for that matter. The Bible asks the question: "Shall we sin that grace may abound?" (Romans 6:1) And: "Shall we do evil that good may come?" (Romans 3:8). In both cases the answer is a resounding NO. It is presumption to step into God's place and try to make the assignments to heaven or to hell. Our duty is to obey God, not to play God.

  John Piper

  Baby, Years, Play

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• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

  John Locke

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 2, ch. 1, sec. 2 (1690)

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• A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Thinking

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• If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

  Voltaire

  Editors, Style, Critics

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.72, Voltaire

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• As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and illuding answers. They easily perceive when they are slighted or deceived, and quickly learn the trick of neglect, dissimulation, and falsehood, which they observe others to make use of. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children; since, if we play false with them, we not only deceive their expectation, and hinder their knowledge, but corrupt their innocence, and teach them the worst of vices.

  John Locke

  Children, Taken, Teaching

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• I live for myself and answer to nobody

  Steve McQueen

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• When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

  Robin Roberts

  Doors

  "Watch Robin Roberts' touching speech at ESPYs". marquee.blogs.cnn.com. July 18, 2013.

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• I've always enjoyed sex scenes, though you're not really supposed to. The classic answer is, 'Oh, it's not sexy at all because there are so many technicians standing around.' But I've always found them extremely arousing.

  Hugh Grant

  Sexy, Classic, Scene

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• Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

  Thomas Hughes

  Children, Men, Heaven

  Thomas Hughes (1864). “Tom Brown at Oxford”, p.156

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• People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.'  How do I know what I might be if I were a white man?  I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day.  I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week.  There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am.  In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man.  But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  Bert Williams

  Song, Men, White Man

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• What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

  John Bright

  Book, Men, Past

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• What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

  Ben Nelson

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

  Trey Anastasio

  Squares, Circles, Drawing

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• Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.

  John Norman

  Wise, Men, Tree

  John Norman (2011). “Marauders of Gor: Gor”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

  Timothy Murphy

  Encouragement, Amnesty, Illegal

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• We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

  James Stephens

  Wise, Asking Questions, Shells

  James Stephens (2015). “Irish Fairy Tales”, p.49, Booklassic

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• I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Taken, Eye

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.2, Crown Archetype

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• For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Errors, Evil

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• You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Sweet, Looks, Spirit

  "Circling: 1978-1987" by Dejan Stojanovic, Krugovanje, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "The Circle," (p. 39), 1993.

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• Dawn Kotzer is the kind of coach who can see beauty and wisdom in circumstances that seem ugly and chaotic. She's kind, genuine and honest, willing and able to see where her clients get stuck and gently help them recover their freedom. Better than a coach who gives you the answers, Dawn will help you find the answers to your life's dilemmas that are already within you.

  Martha Beck

  Giving, Ugly, Able

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• There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.

  Bill Johnson

  Expectations, Risk, Safe

  Bill Johnson (2010). “When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Made

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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• If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

  John Connolly

  Life, Men, Garden

  John Connolly (2015). “Night Music: Nocturnes”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

  Robert Heller

  Facts, Management, Talent

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