"If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary"
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"Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer."
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"Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response."
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"Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?"
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"The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world."
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"Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself."
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"The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be."
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"If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer."
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"No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially."
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"I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions."
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"Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'"
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"I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers."
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"Trust means we always have questions that we don't have the answers to."
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"If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph."
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"[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems."
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"All the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them."
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"Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward."
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"If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot."
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"Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it."
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