"Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question."
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"I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So again good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind."
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"I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?"
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"Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you."
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"Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer"
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"Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive."
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"...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct."
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"Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose."
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"Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer."
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"Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right."
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"Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers.""
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"I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self."
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"People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."
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"There is no simple answer to what I think."
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"How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading."
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"When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt."
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"There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers."
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"All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist."
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"God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer."
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"The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
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