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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
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Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
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You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
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''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
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''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
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'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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