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"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."

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

Stanley Schmidt, American Writer

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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."

Jim Barksdale, American Businessman

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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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"But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer."

Richard Ben Veniste, American Lawyer

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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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."

Sam Donaldson, American Journalist

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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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"The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort."

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"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."

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"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man."

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"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

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"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."

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"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."

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