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• thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Two, Sincere

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• If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Intelligent, Men, Gambling

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• It also has to do with how you look and how you sound. If you look like a mean SOB who's putting the other person down, that's different than if you're inquiring about the process they go through to make a decision on behalf of the public.

  Roger Ailes

  Mean, Decision, Sound

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

  Allen W. Wood

  Use, Moral, Reason

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive. Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.

  Gerry Spence

  Powerful, Attitude, Independent

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.223, St. Martin's Press

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• Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"

  Chath Piersath

  Skills, People, Suffering

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Views, Essence, Substance

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• Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

  Prince Charles

  Rose, Bed, Lotuses

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• We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.

  Sue Thoele

  Butterfly, Eye, Reflection

  Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind”, p.137, Conari Press

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• A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

  Andy Rooney

  Two, Giving, Advice

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• It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friends, Evil, Choices

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• Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

  Mary Oliver

  Differences, Soul, Stubborn

  Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Thinking, Fearless

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More”, p.215, Madison & Adams

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• We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Humble, Errors

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• [Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

  Edward Gibbon

  Long, Empires, Should

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

  Mary Oliver

  Feelings, Mind, Curious

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would love to [do theater], but there are go-to girls for theater. I am learning that, upon moving to New York and inquiring. There are go-to girls that will get the role any day of the week. It's true. Some people won't even let me audition.

  Jeff Daniels

  Girl, New York, Moving

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• Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Unemployment, Poverty, Discrimination

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love You, Want, Moments

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

  Arthur Keith

  Faith, Respect, Learning

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• We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.

  Gerald Edelman

  Thinking, Mind, Molecules

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• Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Thinking, Infidelity, Mind

  Charles Taze Russell (2009). “Studies in the Scriptures”, General Books

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• It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Struggle, Ignorance, Blue

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• There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.

  Marie Dressler

  Thinking, Doctors, Actors

  Marie Dressler (1924). “The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts”, New York : R.M. McBride

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• I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Forever, Important

  Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.359, PublishDrive

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