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• I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.

  Michael Graves

  Writing, Design, Magic

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• When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.

  Kirk Douglas

  Years, Names, Jail

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

  John Capozzi

  Helping, Right Questions, Asks

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• ... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mind, Sometimes, Silent

  "Master Class 2007: A Short Course In Thinking About Thinking". An Edge Special Project, www.edge.org. July 20-22, 2007.

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• The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Paper, Woods

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• Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Mean, Temptation

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• Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Humility, Doubt

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.24, Franciscan Media

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• ...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Book, Thinking, People

  Henrik Ibsen (2014). “Ibsen Plays: 2: A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler”, p.100, A&C Black

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• ... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

  Brian Kernighan

  Principles, Fundamentals, Tests

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• ...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!

  Brian May

  Men, Thinking, Views

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• When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it.

  Brian Greene

  Want, Way, Easy

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.278, Random House

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• There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Real, Growth, Important

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• The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.

  Michael Ruppert

  Thinking, Roots, Race

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• Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

  Albert Einstein

  Cherish

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• Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Problem

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• When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Art, Atheist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.237, tredition

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• There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Greed, Needs, Enough

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• If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.

  Warren Buffett

  Class, Finals, Taught

  "Buffet Says 'No' to Tech Stocks". www.wired.com. May 05, 1998.

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• This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

  Adam Clarke

  Knowing, Waiting, Way

  Adam Clarke (1832). “The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments : the Text Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation Including the Marginal and Parallel Texts ; with a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings”, p.614

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• No one has the answer; only you know the way home.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Home, Way, Knows

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.42, Ballantine Books

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• The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Views, Giving, Way

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.193, John Wiley & Sons

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• I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Goes On, Authority, Accepting

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• Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."

  David Quammen

  Hints, Shapes, Want

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• Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Intellectual, Mediocrity, Problem

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• ...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Educational, School, Thinking

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