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"Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right."
"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."
"Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose."
"I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks."
"So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology."
"Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!"
"Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking."
"People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer."
"Only good questions deserve good answers."
"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
"Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you"
"When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words."
"I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over."
"The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer."
"The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers."
"Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence."
"Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer."
"To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide."
"But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself."
"Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities."
