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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."
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"We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement betweenProfessor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins,concerning "punctuated evolution and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shallresolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication."
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"Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?"
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"It isn't what you don't know that's the problem. It is what you're unwilling to ask."
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"People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly."
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"If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking."
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"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
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"Ask questions. The secrets of life are hidden in questions, so ask wisely."
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"If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers."
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"Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted]."
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"Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Politics
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."
Priority
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Government
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
Love
"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
Lie
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Habit
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
Man
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
Friendship
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