"Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects."
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"There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right."
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"Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction."
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"Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom."
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"So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is."
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"Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer."
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"Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'"
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"We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back."
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"I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them."
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"Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek."
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"It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer."
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"And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know."
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"I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy."
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"Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning."
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"Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters."
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"Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves."
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"All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes."
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"It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions."
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"There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself."
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"If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer."
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