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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it… — Daisaku Ikeda
I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place? — Art Buchwald
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served… — Sandra Day O'Connor
And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother… — William Shakespeare
It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying… — Woody Allen
The important question is, How many hands have I shaked? — George W. Bush
If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That… — Richard Brautigan
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to… — Orson Scott Card
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better… — Cornel West
Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that… — John Green
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for… — John Updike
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart… — Carlos Castaneda
More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man… — Leslie Feinberg
I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question — George W. Bush
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found… — Robert A. Heinlein
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question. — Ralph Ellison
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,… — Betty Friedan
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently,… — Tim Burton
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"… — Alan Watts

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