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• Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

  Simon Sinek

  Understanding, Listening, Asking

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2012

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• I was going to go make a film in Greece. If they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?

  Dyan Cannon

  Marijuana, Jail, Trying

  "Dyan Cannon Discusses Her Faith". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. April 23, 2001.

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• If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Space, Growth, Fruition

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2014). “2012: The year of the Mayan prophecy”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Mind, Important

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Spirit, Humans, Humankind

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• If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe that many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of view of operations.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Philosophical, Believe, Science

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• Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.

  Murray Rothbard

  House, Income, Answers

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.183, NYU Press

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• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Country, Children, Real

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• When I tell people that I'm vegan, the first question asked is, 'How do you get enough protein?' This immediately tells me that they are uneducated and know little or nothing about nutrition.

  Robert Cheeke

  Bodybuilding, People, Littles

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• I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Dear Lord, People

  "'Like a puppy in a Christmas stocking'". Interview With Susan Olasky, world.wng.org. September 20, 2003.

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• Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Lying, Hero, Years

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Way, Problem

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.44, Souvenir Press

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• Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

  George W. Bush

  Witty, Nature, Children

  "You've been a great audience ..." by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2009.

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• A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Hilarious, Mistake

  "Funny Ladies" by B. Adler, (p. 147), 2001.

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• If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"

  Robert V. Taylor

  Love, Tests, Spirituality

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• The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Refuse, True Nature

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

  RZA

  Self, Age, Figures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Fire, Agreement

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Philosophical, Interesting, Trials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.

  Nicky Romero

  Running, Play, Track

  Interview with Aditya Seth, thebanginbeats.wordpress.com. August 28, 2014.

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• In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'

  Dennis Prager

  Media, Years, America

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• Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail - gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, Oxycontin, Jail

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• I had this question asked to me recently when I was buying food for my wife and brother in law and I would like to ask it to other people: Why is it that most celebrities pay with cash as opposed to credit card? Is it so that they are not recognized right away and want to be more unassuming?

  A. J. McLean

  Brother, Law, People

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• Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

  Abe Ajay

  Art, Snakes, Historical

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• Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

  Nuruddin Farah

  Arrogance, Receiving, Guests

  Nuruddin Farah (2015). “Hiding in Plain Sight”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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