Quotes and Sayings About Answers
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
-- A. R. AmmonsSource : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.
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I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
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The simplest answer is to act.
-- A.S. KingSource : "Everybody Sees the Ants". Book by A.S. King, 2011.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
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Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
-- Aaron CoplandSource : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.27, Penguin
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The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
-- Aaron Levie -
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
-- Abel FerraraSource : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
-- Abraham ColesSource : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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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?
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
-- Abraham Joshua HeschelSource : "SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence". Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, 2000.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.
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A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.
-- Adam Baldwin -
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
-- Adam Kirsch -
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God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
-- Adoniram Judson -
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
-- Adoniram Judson -
There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.
-- Adrian Smith -
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Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.
-- Al Gore -
Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
-- Al StumpSource : "Cobb: A Biography".