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"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
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"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."

"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

"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."

"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
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"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."

"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."

"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."

"I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American."

"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."

"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."

"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."

"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."

"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
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