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• You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, What If, Guessing

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• Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

  Frank Carlucci

  Keys, Korea, Iraq

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• The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct it into images that would appear. You already feel very ill and you're trying to put this riddle together because it is the prescription for health. I believe in art as a spiritual health-giving process, not just some style.

  Malcolm Morley

  Spiritual, Art, Integrity

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• It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Men, Reality, Wrath

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• I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

  Rob Brezsny

  Believe, Ideas, Dogma

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.3, Frog Books

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• Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

  Harold Bloom

  Jesus, Irony, Repetition

  Harold Bloom (2005). “Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Hands

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• [Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.

  Will Cuppy

  Space, Long, Four

  "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

  Deepak Chopra

  Intelligent, Design, Asking

  "Intelligent Design Without the Bible". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2005.

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• Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Self, Essence

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.71, Hackett Publishing

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• Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When you’re delivering your lines, he’ll stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If you’re hoping for him to give you all the answers, then you’re in for a long day.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Character, Long, Giving

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Mazes, World, Speech

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.38, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  Warren Buffett

  Dog, Thinking, Issues

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

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• This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Men

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Mind, Birth

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• Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.

  Stephen Crane

  Strong, Lying, Home

  Stephen Crane (2016). “Wounds in the Rain”, p.39, Stephen Crane

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• Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

  Daniel Tosh

  Answers, Homeless, Persons

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• Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beautiful, Dull, Genius

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• to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  New Shoes, People, Wit

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.366

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• Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Confused, People, Pits

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• Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, Mean, Ballet

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• But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

  Laurence Sterne

  Knowledge, Loss, Dark

  Laurence Sterne (1847). “Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C”, p.185

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• Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Selfish, Evil, Behavior

  "Crime and Punishment". www.nytimes.com. September 19, 1999.

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• The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

  Julia Child

  Book, Cooking, Needs

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