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"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
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"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."
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"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."
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"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
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"During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected."
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"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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"Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate."
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"War grows out of ordinary human nature."
Conflict
"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
Philosophy
"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."
Love
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Life
"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
Progress
"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
Life
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
Food
"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."
Man
"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."
Art
"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
Age
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