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"Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers."

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"It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises."

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"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."

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"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."

Abdolkarim Soroush, Iranian Philosopher

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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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."

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"I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered."

Kim Novak, American Actress

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do."

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"Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position."

Malcolm Boyd, American Clergyman

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"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."

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