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• The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

  Simon Critchley

  Meaning Of Life, Facts, Finitude

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.33, Polity

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• Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.

  Amy Tan

  Giving Up, Book, Don't Give Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer.

  Wendy Greuel

  Dream, Want, Knows

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The sanctions and travel restrictions would have to be far more comprehensive to be truly painful for [Vladimir] Putin and his inner circle. And the new middle class should also feel the effects of what he is doing. For instance, we should ask those who wish to enter the EU whether they have visited illegally occupied Crimea in the last few months and, if the answer is "yes," deny them a visa.

  Garry Kasparov

  Class, Circles, Wish

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

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• Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Keys

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• We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Grateful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.412

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• There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Men, Insanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.190, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask, 'How might we achieve these goals?' I answer, 'By getting a true perspective of who we really are!' We are sons and daughters of a living God in whose image we have been created. Think of that truth: 'Created in the image of God!' We cannot sincerely hold this conviction without experiencing a profound new sense of strength and power, even the strength to live the commandments of God, the power to resist the temptations of Satan.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Disappointment, Humility

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• What's your brand? If you can't answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand's in trouble.

  Al Ries

  Two, Three, Trouble

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• Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

  Barack Obama

  Retirement, Cutting, Age

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 11, 2007.

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• You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Song, Falling In Love, Thinking

  "Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Might, Crops

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.122, Macmillan

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• The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.

  Aaron Russo

  Party, Two Sides, People

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• Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts.

  Woody Allen

  Interesting, May, Raises

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• I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• Not every question deserves an answer.

  Publilius Syrus

  Deserve

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• You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Care, Information, Next

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• What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Baby, Attitude, Taken

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• Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Simple, Wonder, Complicated

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• But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or device whatever which in the particular situation before him seems likely to yield the correct answer. ... No one standing on the outside can predict what the individual scientist will do or what method he will follow.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Yield, Action, Scientist

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• It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.

  Denny Hamlin

  Opportunity, Doors, Down And

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• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,
  The hum of either army stilly sounds,
  That the fixed sentinels almost receive
  The secret whispers of each other's watch.
  Fire answers fire, and through their play flames
  Each battle sees the other's umbered face.
  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
  The armorers accomplishing the knights,
  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
  Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Army, Night

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.

  George Orwell

  Fall, Home, Russia

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• President Clinton says he looks forward to the day a citizen can call the IRS and get the right answer to a question. I look forward to the day I can call the IRS and get a voice that says, 'Sorry, that number has been disconnected.'

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Voice, Numbers

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