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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.: Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004), Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
A wise man's question contains half the answer.: Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.: Omaha Proverb
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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content Comic, 08-21-05
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: 'Is this all?': Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)

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