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"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."
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"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."
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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
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"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."
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"Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers."
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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."
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"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
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"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
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"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."
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"But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer."
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"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."
Energy
"Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money."
Money
"It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future."
History
"Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family."
Family
"Number is different from quantity."
Quantity
"It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist."
Life
"If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time."
Time
"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."
Language
"Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains."
Education
"Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived."
Quantity
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