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• When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Argument, Bigs

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• I've been on the planet for 40 years now, and I'm still none the wiser as to what it's all about really. I've never worried about life's big questions. People at my age sit about pondering, 'Why are we here?' The only time I ever asked myself that is when Suzanne booked us a surprise holiday to Lanzarote.

  Karl Pilkington

  Holiday, Years, People

  "Karl Pilkington gets attacked by a crab and swims through poo in The Moaning of Life series 2 trailer" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. August 3, 2015.

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• It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.

  Larry Wachtel

  Oil, Earning, Flow

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• We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere--from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water.

  Daniel Taylor

  School, Breathing, Water

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• What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

  Simon Barnes

  Future, Thinking, Years

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• Art is a big question mark.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Bigs, Mark

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• It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

  Neal Shusterman

  World, Bigs, Unwholly

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.

  Mark Haddon

  Love, Teenage, Giving Up

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• Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Waiting, Mind

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• For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Atheist, Educational, War

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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• Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

  Josh Radnor

  Film, Form, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

  David Packard

  Mistake, Risk, Enough

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• I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

  Mark Haddon

  Religious, Atheist, Hymns

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with now - and it saves me from reapplying lipstick! I'm a pretty low-maintenance person and it's too excessive to exaggerate both the eyes and lips.

  Claire Danes

  Eye, Maintenance, Lips

  "Claire Danes' Beauty Secrets". Interview with Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

  Rodney Brooks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Science, Answers

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• You must learn to live with the big questions and wait for the next steps to arise. Only with this patience and perseverance, can Heaven really trust you and rely upon you in the world. Oh my, I have had to wait for so many things!

  Marshall Vian Summers

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Rely Upon

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• There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Different, Generations, Bigs

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• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Interesting, Fearless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The excitement that science possess is its ability to answer the big questions.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Answers, Excitement, Bigs

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• A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes, sea shores and deserts, this is where we humans have the privilege to live, the latest, most advanced newcomers in evolution. What an immense, incredible responsibility we have to be a right, positive element in the further evolution of that planet. That is the big question before us in the new century and millennium.

  Robert Muller

  Ocean, Responsibility, Years

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• So the big question is, "Well, do I just dump all those unwanted things and try to start fresh?" And we say, no. You just set the Tone, where you are, by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your Tone in a very clear deliberate way, anything that doesn't match it gravitates out of your experience, and anything that does match it gravitates into your experience. It is so much simpler than most of you are allowing yourself to believe.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Appreciation

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• The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Answers, Bigs

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• This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.

  Simon Heffer

  Country, Freedom, Lying

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• Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

  George Wald

  Science, Growth, Age

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