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- If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
- Edward Hodnett
- Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
- J. S. Habgood
- I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
- Kahlil Gibron
- Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
- John Galsworthy
- We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
- Harold Nicolson
- For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
- David H. Lawrence
- Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John M. Keynes
- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
- Clare Boothe Luce
- If a thing goes without saying -- let it.
- Jacob Braude, Treasury of Wit & Humor For All Occasions
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