"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers."
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"I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything."
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"Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another."
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"What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!"
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"When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself."
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"He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer."
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"Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call."
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"The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm."
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"Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible."
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"Of course people are angry. Generation upon generation had jobs at steel mills or whatever - things were going on and it looked like it would always be that way. And then there's these cataclysmic changes and people find themselves out on their arse and they're angry and they want answers. But one thing that's for sure is that those answers will not come in the form of Donald J. Trump."
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"But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists."
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"Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does."
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"I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course."
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"Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind."
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"I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers."
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"Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed."
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"I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers."
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"I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are."
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"Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept."
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"Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers."
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