"Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority."
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"If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer."
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"We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers."
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"Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!"
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"When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down."
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"One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us."
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"Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile."
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"It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment."
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"Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart."
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"If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?"
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"I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others."
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"Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems."
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"The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy."
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"The simplest questions are the most difficult."
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"Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity."
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"What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away."
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"If someone asks, But what is Love? Answer, Dissolving the will."
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"How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to."
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"There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."
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"You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly."
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