"My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language."

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"My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language."

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"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"There are no right answers to wrong questions."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."

Paul Allen, American Businessman

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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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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."

Lester Bangs, American Critic

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"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

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"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

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"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."

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"Discussion in America means dissent."

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"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."

"There are no right answers to wrong questions."

"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."

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."

"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."

"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."

"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."

"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel."

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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead."

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

"Don't get it right, just get it written."

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."

"Discussion in America means dissent."