Easy Answers Quotes

• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Business, Simple Solutions, Neat And Tidy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.443, Vintage

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• They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Simple, Answers

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Courage, Simple, Answers

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.5, Humanix Books

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• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nature, Asking Questions, Environmental

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

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• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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• I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

  Andrew Saul

  People, Wish, Answers

  Andrew Saul, Ph.D. (2009). “Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.439, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Fighting, People, Trying

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Pain, Divorce

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

  Elizabeth George

  Answers, Easy

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• Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.

  Mira Grant

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Running, Luck, Gold

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

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• There are consequences to our insatiable demands for energy and there are no easy answers for how to capture that energy safely. But even more pressing, since we are currently using nuclear power across the country and the globe, nuclear power plants must be regulated, and we need to be certain that our regulatory bodies are not compromised by their relationships with industry.

  Ivy Meeropol

  Country, Nuclear, Answers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Practice, Two

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Writing, Challenges

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Life Lesson, Character, Reflection

  "Syriana - Preview" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.

  M. Scott Peck

  Want, Ifs, Knows

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• As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

  Laurie Foos

  Answers, Easy, Gray Area

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.

  Chuck Wendig

  Art, Crazy, Writing

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• The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

  Adrian Younge

  Hero, Kids, People

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Answers, Landscape

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

  Sjon

  Simple, Answers, Literature

  Source: wwd.com

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• It's going to sound like the easy answer, but I love them both. I do! I really don't prefer one over the other. With movies, you really dive into a character for two to three months, but then it's gone. With a TV series, you have a constant location you're living in, and you're always working on the same character along with people who are like your own family. I'm lucky to have done both.

  Laura Vandervoort

  Character, Two, People

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

  Leslie Jamison

  Age, Answers, Might

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• Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

  Ronald Reagan

  Heart, Simple, Answers

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.

  Rand Paul

  Should Have, President, Answers

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