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Calvin Trillin

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

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"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

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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."

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"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

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"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."

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"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."

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"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."

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

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"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers."

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"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

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

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"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."

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