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"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is 'nothing."
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"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
"If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers."
"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"
"What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?"
"Assumptions can be dangerous, JUST ASK!!"
"Is Virgin you trying to fathom me."
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"The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love."
"There is a common superstition that 'self-respect is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation."
"We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as 'ordinary blessings."
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"Privilege' is something else.'Privilege' is a judgment.'Privilege' is an opinion.'Privilege' is an accusation."
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