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Letter "T" » The Question
«In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.»
Author: Edward P. Tryon
| About:
Questioning,
Universe
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from time to time, modest, Our universe, proposal, proposals, The Question
«Human spirituality is to seek an answer to the question: 'how can you make sense out of a world which does not seem to be intrinsically reasonable?'»
Author: John D. Morgan
| About:
Spirit
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intrinsically, make sense, reasonable, spirituality, The Question
«All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?»
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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«But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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multiplies, multiply, The Question
«If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(Actress, Comedian)
| Keywords:
answer, please, question, rephrase, The Question
«Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
asks, conscience, cowardice, expediency, More popular than, neither, Nor, politic, popular, popular with, position, positioning, question, safe, safes, tells, The Question, The Right Questions
«In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?»
Author: French Proverb
| Keywords:
councils, council of, ought, question, so much, state, The Question
«In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
accepted, at hand, govern, inevitable, materials, more or less, The Question, to advantage, turned, valid
«And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....I sum up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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