"There is no right answer except to play and experiment."
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"Your questions are false if you already know the answer."
"The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is."
"Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel."
"Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast."
"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
"I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything."
"If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him."
"I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand."
"But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no."
"My mother answers all my fan mail."
"Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there."
"All men, well interrogated, answer well."
"It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer."
"Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer."
"If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them."
"the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer"
"As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand."
"We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery."