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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"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."

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Martin Lewis Perl Physicist
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"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."

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Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"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."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"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."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"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."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"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."

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"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."

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Elif Batuman Author
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"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."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"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."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery."

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