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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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Personal Development
"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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Personal Development
"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
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Personal Development
"Never ask a bore a question."
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Personal Development
"My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most."
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Personal Development
"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
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Personal Development
"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
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Personal Development
"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
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"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."
People
"I believe in that connection between freedom and the city."
Connection
"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
Man
"I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that."
Independence
"I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right."
Thought
"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."
Fact
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
Writing
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
Intelligence
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
Decision-Making
"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
Government
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