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• You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

  Richard Bach

  Light, Jewels, Color

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• Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Thinking, Pneumonia

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• On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Hope, Country

  "Obama: 'Fear' drives voters" by Carol E.Lee, www.politico.com. October 16, 2010.

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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

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• The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

  Margaret Mead

  Funny, Trust, Children

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• Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Hope

  Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé (2003). “Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planet”, J P Tarcher

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• One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Lying, Simplicity, Inner Peace

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• Many folks have asked me, 'How do you do it and why have you sacrificed so much to do this work?' The answer comes easy. I look at my daughter and find hope in that she is living in a world of struggle, of social and political movement. She and the other five-year-olds will grow up in a more just, more equitable world. She motivates me.

  Lateefah Simon

  Daughter, Growing Up, Struggle

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• I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.

  Brittany Murphy

  Girlfriend, Curious, Asks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Faith, Christian

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Personality, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 17, 2017

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• Having faith doesn't mean I have all the answers. It means trusting God especially in the midst of uncertainty.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Trust, Mean, Have Faith

  Twitter post from Dec 14, 2015

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• Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

  John Hume

  Respect, Lying, Differences

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• When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and.

  Bill Crawford

  Either Or

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• The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

  Leon Brown

  Silence, Mind, Speak

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• The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Change, Home

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• The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

  Paul Tillich

  Truth, Passion, Weight

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.65, U of Nebraska Press

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• Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.

  Omar Suleiman

  God, Prayer, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 25, 2014

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• Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Would Be, Ignored

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.77, Del Rey

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• The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Air, Gunpowder, Pistols

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

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• Make sure to answer these (3) empowering questions everyday (preferably in writing): Q1-What am I grateful for? Q2-What am I proud of? Q3-What results am I committed to creating today? -> Start now!

  Hal Elrod

  Grateful, Writing, Creating

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 22, 2009

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• Question your answers, Truth has no anger

  Ed Roland

  Truth, No Anger

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• When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophical, Light, Silence

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• Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

  Keith Best

  Teaching, Preparation, Politics

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• For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

  Brian May

  Queens, Alive, Want

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