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"If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally."
"If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence."
"[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants."
"I do my best to answer all questions that they might have as well as make appearances at camps and what not."
"One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop."
"...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation."
"Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it."
"And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now."
"Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures."
"Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody."
"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us."
"Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!"
"You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business."
"Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth.""
"I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer."
"If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by."
"Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'"
"We only hear questions that we are able to answer."
"God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!"
"Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions."
