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- To a quick question, give a slow answer.
- Italian Proverb
- Ignorance never settles a question.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
- Anne Besant (1847 - 1933)
- The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
- The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #478, 10-27-05
- I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), December 11, 1964
- Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
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