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• The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Risk, Important, Problem

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• Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Important, Details, Literature

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• The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

  Jim Rohn

  Important, Time Management, Becoming

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• Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

  Mark Applebaum

  Motivation, Inspiration, Interesting

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• Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

  Brad Linaweaver

  Responsibility, Important, Fiction

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• Warren Berger’s book is a cure for a disease in large enterprises. A More Beautiful Question provides a framework to help leaders ask the most important questions—which is one of the most fundamental characteristics of a great leader—while sharing inspiring stories to show the incredible power of this concept.

  Jim Stengel

  Beautiful, Book, Leader

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• The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Important, Settling, Settling Down

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.296, Courier Corporation

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• I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Positive, Hate, People

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• The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Hands, Political

  "A word to the wise" by Alexander Chancellor, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.

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• It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Reflection, Men

  Alexander Hamilton (1810). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Most Important Official Reports: An Improved Edition of the Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788; and Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793 ...”, p.1

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• What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.

  Anton Chekhov

  Eye, Thinking, Sight

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.454, e-artnow

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• The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.

  Colin Ward

  Important, Normal, Libertarian

  Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.158, PM Press

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• A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

  Harold Ramis

  Fun, Two, Important

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• Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.

  Guy P. Harrison

  Important, Answers, Today

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• The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

  Carl Jung

  Important, Myth, Asks

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• The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'

  John Paul Caponigro

  Important, Asking, Way

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• Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

  Sheri Fink

  Thinking, Important, Problem

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• What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.

  James Elkins

  Art, Thinking, Important

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.3, Routledge

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• An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Important, Firsts, Decoration

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• I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore?" I think that's a very common connection we tend to make. I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

  Robert Bateman

  Important, Planets, Is It Worth It

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• The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

  David Alan Harvey

  Comforting, Important, Answers

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• It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

  Matthew Arnold

  Thinking, Important, Able

  "Democracy" (1861)

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• What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

  Howard Jacobson

  Taken, Important, Liberty

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• The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

  Elie Wiesel

  Important, Faces, Humans

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