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Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic… — Jim Wallis
religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the… — William P. Young
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot… — Harper Lee
He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do… — Karen Chance
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton
Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. — Mark Haddon
Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse fall in… — Kate DiCamillo
Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net… — Yann Martel
When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?'… — Haruki Murakami
Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The… — Kim Harrison
That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps… — Sarah Dessen
You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now. — Jim Butcher
Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."… — Rick Riordan
Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people… — Maya Angelou
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to… — Brigham Young
That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone… — Nicole Krauss
We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I… — Diane Ackerman
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun… — Andrea Camilleri
You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane… — David Markson
In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how… — Stephenie Meyer
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities… — Bertrand Russell

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