Quotes 81 till 100 of 142.
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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
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My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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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.
Source: Arctic Dreams -
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
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Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007) -
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
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So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition) -
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
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The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
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The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
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The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
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