"It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions."
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"Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'."
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"I'm not approachable by someone who says, "Let's try some drugs," or something like that. I'm absolutely close-minded about that kind of thing. But I'm wide open to anyone who says, "I've been wondering why we're here and where we're going, and I've got a few answers, but I wondered if anything ever happened to you that suggests..." Then they have me, and I become a chatterbox and can just talk away literally for days."
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"Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions."
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"Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook."
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"Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply."
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"For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer."
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"What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you."
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"There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room."
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"Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil."
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"The answers we're looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present - to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide."
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"But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered."
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"I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing."
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"The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem."
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"When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives."
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"Love is the answer. Now, what is your question?"
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"It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions."
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"They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them."
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"The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer."
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"The simplest answer is to act."
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