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- If you ask too many questions, you will find no answers, only more questions.
- Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010
- This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
- There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
- The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
- Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
- That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinent answer.
- Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, 1973
- Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact when they can, and the weak grant what they must.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
- The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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