"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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"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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"When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being."

Winona Ryder, American Actress

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"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

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"In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live."

Sarah Brightman, English Musician

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"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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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."

Avrum Stroll, American Philosopher

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"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."

Antony Jay, British Writer

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"Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

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"When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things."

Wynn Bullock, American Photographer

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"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."

Levi Strauss, American Businessman

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"I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre."

Paul Haggis, Canadian Director

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"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."

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"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."

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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

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"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

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"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."

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"All experience is subjective."

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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."

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"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."

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"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."

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"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."

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