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This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger…
— Cornelia Funke
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And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might…
— Isaac Asimov
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We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question."…
— Jennifer Rardin
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination…
— Marquis de Sade
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I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and…
— Jack Kerouac
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Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question,…
— Bill Watterson
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The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to…
— Frederick Douglass
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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
— Max Planck
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Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war,…
— Mary Doria Russell
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Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us…
— Azar Nafisi
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a…
— Nicholas Sparks
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What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus…
— Bernhard Schlink
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In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables…
— Haruki Murakami
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When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold…
— Walt Whitman
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This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare,…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer…
— Miranda July
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
— Rachel Carson
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