"The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life."
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"Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers."
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"I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out."
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"A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future."
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"I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future."
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"The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated."
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"No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected."
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"The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though."
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"If you live the questions, life will move you into answers."
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"As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers."
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"Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer."
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"A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
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"Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the decanter he held it to the light. 'Robin can go anywhere, do anything,' Nora continued, 'because she forgets, and I nowhere because I remember.' She came toward him. 'Matthew,' she said, 'you think I have always been like this. Once I was remorseless, but this is another love — it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop — it rots me away."
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"Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To."
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"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
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"The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us."
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"It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment."
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"Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes."
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"I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one."
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"Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no."
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