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• We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Drinking, Mean

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.425, GENERAL PRESS

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• 9/11 just seemed to come out of the blue. And there were people asking questions, but then there were no answers. At some point, it just turned into, "We've got to do what we've got to do." And I think those are the moments when you grow, when you get the opportunity to try to figure out, exactly as you said, what price are you paying, and if it's worth that price.

  Susan Sarandon

  Opportunity, Thinking, Blue

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

  D. A. Carson

  Scripture, Claims, Being True

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

  Bill Mollison

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, Issues, Space

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Twenties, New Life, Four

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• Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.

  Malik Yoba

  Offering, Osmosis, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

  Lisa Loeb

  Writing, Style, Musician

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• As I started getting older and started to learn about the world, my friends would tell me about video games and dirt bikes and stuff, and I'd be like, "Oh, I got none of that." I started asking questions, like, "Why we can't get this stuff?" And it was like, "Well, we work hard to make sure da da da..."

  Fetty Wap

  Hard Work, Games, Getting Older

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

  Athol Fugard

  Heart, Judging, Trying

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• You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

  Jacob Neusner

  Thinking, Needs, Answers

  Jacob Neusner (2007). “How To Grade Your Professors: And Other Unexpected Advice”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

  Paul Bettany

  Light, Errors, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Thinking, People, Shows

  "Thomas Sadoski Talks THE SLAP, Why He Wanted the Role, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 20, 2015.

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• Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Mother, Girlfriend

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• I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

  Allen Ginsberg

  Angel, Pork, Bananas

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Love, Girl, Party

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Imperial Bedrooms”, p.4, Vintage

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• I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sick, Answers, Knows

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.63, Penguin

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• In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  School, Good Questions, Answers

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• I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Cities

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• Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."

  David Sedaris

  Waiting Rooms, People, Office

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• I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

  Trevor Phillips

  Asking, Has Beens, Asks

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• I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems.

  Robert Benchley

  Believe, Men, Numbers

  Robert Benchley (1954). “The Benchley Roundup”

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• Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.

  Arnold Wesker

  Country, Book, Way

  Arnold Wesker (2013). “Roots”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.

  Alan Lightman

  Journey, Thinking, Dna

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• Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

  Margaret Mead

  Writing, People, Important

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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