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• And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

  Alan Blinder

  Skills, Age, Lucky

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• My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

  Karen Traviss

  Book, Objectivity, Facts

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• Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Brain, World, Tag

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.15, Vintage

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• When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.

  Tom Araya

  Mind, Trying, Interviews

  "SLAYER's TOM ARAYA: JEFF HANNEMAN's Death 'Has Changed Everything'". Interview with Brian Aberback, www.blabbermouth.net. October 22, 2013.

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• Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.”

  Jonah Lehrer

  Views, California, Perspective

  "Groupthink: The brainstorming myth" by Jonah Lehrer, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

  Robert McNamara

  Wish

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.

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• Only a Bush could answer a 'yes' or 'no' question two different ways and be wrong both times.

  Bill Maher

  Two, Different, Way

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• ...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, War, Goal

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• Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Attitude, Heart

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• Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

  Michael Haneke

  Home, Raises Questions, Different

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• Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.

  Biz Stone

  Mind, Open Mind, Keep An Open Mind

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• I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

  Gerard Way

  Differences, Making A Difference, Needs

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• If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Care, Pesticides

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have prosperity without commerce? How can one have commerce without luxury? How can one have luxury without corruption? How can you have corruption without the end of the Republic?" And they really didn't know the answer.

  Pete Seeger

  Years, Luxury, Republic

  Source: portside.org

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• I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.

  Richard Simmons

  Two, People, Say Anything

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Pages, Opinion

  "Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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• I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.

  Lance Armstrong

  Gun, Thinking, Doors

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• it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

  Martha Ostenso

  Work, Men, Asking Questions

  Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

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• I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

  Joy Harjo

  Memories, Heart, Brain

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• If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

  Joy Harjo

  Sadness, Poetry, Noise

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• The person who conveys, 'I am nothing. Make me something,' may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea, but their answer will be in terms of, 'I am trying to make you something because you are nothing,' and, thus, the insult will be embedded in the response. It will be heard just as clearly as the attempt to help. And it will be hated.

  Jo Coudert

  People, Trying, May

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse

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• Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

  Munir Butt

  Giving Up, Simple, Men

  "Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt". Yale Daily News, 1994.

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• I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

  Jack Cafferty

  Complaining, Bother, Knows

  "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America". Book by Jack Cafferty, 2008.

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• Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Honesty, Writing, Simple

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• If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.

  Pope Clement I

  Men, Want, Bread

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