Yes And No quotes
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"Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!"
"When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence."
"Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad."
"What's the difference between yes and no?"
"Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over."
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"[T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view."
"One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no."
