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• For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

  Richard Hammond

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• Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

  Nicholas Stern

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  Tags in Inquiry, Questioning

• There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

  Nancy Willard

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Learning, Hope, Questioning, Living, Science

• The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

  Peter Abelard

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• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  Gabrielle Reece

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• Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

  Brian Ferneyhough

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• If you can do it then why do it?

  Gertrude Stein

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• Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

  Gertrude Stein

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• Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

  Gertrude Stein

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• What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

  Gertrude Stein

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• And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

  Tony Greig

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  Tags in Questioning, Reasoning

• I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

  Tommy Franks

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• I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn’t a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.

  Timothy Hutton

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• After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

  Ernst Toller

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• There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

  James Nathan Miller

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• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

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• If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Soul

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• The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

  Arthur Miller

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