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• The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

  Stephen Covey

  Doors, Stills, Contributors

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Thinking, Support

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• I think in other generations, the 50s, the 60s, people went into religion and they were really involved with religion. I found that religion doesn't answer certain unique questions people have about faith and belief.

  James Van Praagh

  Unique, Thinking, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: James Van Praagh Enters a New Realm with Ghost Whisperer: The Second Season". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 28, 2007.

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• A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.

  Doug Benson

  Dog, Animal, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.

  Alexander Wang

  Girl, Mind, Muse

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hate, War, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Men, Giving, Mind

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• I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.

  Dean Graziosi

  Self, Realizing, Made

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• Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

  Bob Hope

  Running, Unemployment, Problem

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• People want the answer to cancer, and they're not going to get it without spending money, because money is frozen energy that unfreezes itself when you pay people to work.

  Mary Lasker

  Cancer, People, Energy

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• We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

  Amy Tan

  Book, Hands, Satisfaction

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• Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Games, Already Won

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• Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

  Mike Nichols

  Crush, Mother, Communication

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• What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Father

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• There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rifles, Terrorism

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• If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

  John Cage

  Finals, Absurd, Courses

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Come Up, Ifs

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• In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Perseverance, Moving, Inspiration

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• Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before.

  Ted Cruz

  Disease, Problem, Cures

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• Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.

  Kevin Drum

  Lying, Thinking, Zuckerberg

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• I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

  Mark Leibovich

  Mirrors, Giving, Shining

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

  Doug Martsch

  Tired, Play, Creative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

  Gwen Ifill

  Presidential, Looks, News

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Thinking, Civilization, Scared

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• We are posing two very clear questions. The first is: Did the Holocaust actually take place? You answer this question in the affirmative. So, the second question is: Whose fault was it? The answer to that has to be found in Europe and not in Palestine. It is perfectly clear: If the Holocaust took place in Europe, one also has to find the answer to it in Europe.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Europe, Two, Holocaust

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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