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"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"
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"My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most."

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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."

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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."

"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."

"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."
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