Wordgrove Post & Review

THE Question EDITION

Quoted In The Grove:
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don’t deny anything, I don’t advocate anything, I just live with it.
~Bruce Springsteen

Live the questions now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.
~Froud

A valid answer comes when the question is lived.
~Elizabeth Vongsaravanh

EndQuote:
You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
~Richard Bach

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Exercise Prompt for 12/14:   perfect

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When someone asks a question, don’t assume they don’t know the answer. Clever people will always test you.
~Wayne Gerard Trotman

The smart ones ask when they don’t know. And, sometimes, when they do.
~Malcolm Forbes

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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

Doubts are good. Confusion is excellent. Questions are awesome. All these are attempts to expand the wisdom of mind.
~Manoj Arora

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
~Bruce Lee

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
~Confucius

A wise man never regrets the questions he asks. Only the ones he didn’t ask.
~Ted Bell

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~Claude LeviStrauss

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
~John Locke

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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~Naguib Mahfouz

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a wellpacked question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
~James Stephens

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~Francis Bacon

A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
~Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The question is the answer.
~Thomas Vato

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Posted From The Grove

By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
~George Santayana

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
~Bernerd Baruch

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
~Jacob Bronowski

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
~Galileo Galilei

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Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
~Neil Postman

If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.
~Susanne Langer

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
~George Wald

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I do not question dusty tomes — I ask the stars.
Parchment has no meaning to me — I ask my living, quivering breath
~Muriel Strode

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
~Freeman Dyson

At issue was the question whether this man’s faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
~Whittaker Chambers

Movies about space raise those questions of what we’re doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
~Danny Boyle

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
~Herbert Simon

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
~Edgar Cayce

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The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, ‘You haven’t answered every question with evolution,’… Well, guess what? Science can’t answer every question.
~Kenneth R Miller

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
~Georg Cantor

Modern physics has become like Swift’s kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
~Robert Lanza

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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
~Jack White

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
~David Smith

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
~Edsger Dijkstra

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
~John Stuart Mill

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
~Bill Gates

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While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
~Mike Pence

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
~Leon Kass

There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
~Benjamin Carson

I suppose I’m intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I’m a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
~Jude Law

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “How?” but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “Why?”
~Erwin Chargaff

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
~Max Planck

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
~Mark Haddon

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
~J Michael Straczynski

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~Sustainable Human:  Question Everything   (4:46)   George Carlin & Jacque Fresco
https://vimeo.com/42897845

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~Chris McNutt:  A Question   (9:40)   everyday-people answers
https://vimeo.com/109988690

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~James Chan-a-Sue:  A simple question?   (0.52)   sport or art?
https://vimeo.com/161978272

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~Sam Salek:  The Question Mark   (3:00)   surreal question mark jumps to a conclusion
https://vimeo.com/10009630

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~Blue Boat Films:  love — question mark   (3:43)   a short poem repeats, takes on meaning
https://vimeo.com/64671422

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~Tatiana Alisova:  How the question got its mark   (3:00)   animated story, unforgivable pun at the end
https://vimeo.com/117751049

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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
~Wilfrid Laurier

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
~Alexis de Tocqueville

I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ‘Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting money.
~Andy Warhol

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, ‘Do you want temporary economic gain or longterm environmental loss, which one do you prefer,’ we invariably choose the money.
~Ethan Hawke

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
~Cornel West

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
~Billie Jean King

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
~Voltaire

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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
~Orison Swett Marden

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
~Jeff Bezos

One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we’re already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.
~Roy H Williams

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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
~Peter Drucker

Asking the right question and listening to the answer is a great relationship builder, which is important to the persuasion process.
~Zig Ziglar

When you want to persuade, you’ll always get further by asking a question than by making a statement.
~Dorothy Leeds

When you are talking, you are only covering what you already know. The only way to learn what other person needs and what you don’t already know is to ask questions.
~Tom Hopkins

Asking questions is one of the fundamental keys of learning. It is always better to ask a question than pretend you understand.
~Catherine Pulsifer

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§ VIDEO
I would say that the directors that I’ve liked the most are all curious in nature – curious thinkers. They’re all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.
~Brad Pitt

It’s a good question, because a movie isn’t good or bad based on its politics. It’s usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
~Roger Ebert

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
~Edward Norton

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can’t know. And so it’s not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
~Ken Jennings

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I’ve discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
~Damian Lewis

Because I’m the author of my screenplays I know what I’m looking for. It’s true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it’s also a question of working with patience and love.
~Michael Haneke

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.
~JeanPaul Sartre

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There’s no question of interpretation of what we are saying it’s just about feeling. You create your own story.
~Michel Hazanavicius

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
~Michael Haneke

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LOVE: Parts I, II, III
~NITVShorts:  A Glimpse   (10:04)   telescoping on love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MM5eipKjl0

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~Omeleto:  I Will Despise You   (7:50)   the wages of honesty — a concept romance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge2IdX29PhY

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~Kate Cox:  VERT   (12:14)   transformation technology, when ‘what if’ arrives
https://vimeo.com/398274283

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~Bystanders:  Mr Question Mark   (3:55)   goofy mystery
https://vimeo.com/528173041

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~Corry Raymond:  One Final Question   (3:09)   the one before *click*
https://vimeo.com/117104525

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~Omeleto:  Newborn   (6:18)   what’s in a name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBC9loFMM_c

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~Dust:  Hashtag   (14:56)   fb extrapolated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krkk8eyx-lU

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~Omeleto:  Hyperuranios   (7:01)   To be or not, subtitlted Plato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZsMo03vEVM

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Please don’t ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
~Helen Reddy

I certainly hope I’m not still answering childstar questions by the time I reach menopause.
~Christina Ricci

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When I’m interviewing somebody I don’t work from prepared questions.
~William Shatner

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you’re really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.
~Rob Corddry

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
~Kate Chopin

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
~Kiana Tom

I’m just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don’t answer it truthfully then I’m not respected.
~Terry Bradshaw

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
~Jessica Savitch

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are ‘What are you doing now?’ and ‘How are you going to beat that?’ And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly – that you’re in battle against yourself.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~Richard Bach

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
~Nikki Giovanni

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
~Anthony Trollope

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
~Lillian Smith

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
~David Bowie

If I had it to do again, I’d ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.
~Robert Brault

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
~Gary Ryan Blair

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When you sit down and think about what rock ‘n’ roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played uptempo, you call it rock ‘n’ roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
~Little Richard

The biggest question I have is if you’re a rock singer or a rock ‘n’ roll band, or if you’re a pop singer… if you’ve made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That’s my question. Why?
~Joe Nichols

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I’m not saying I’ve got the answers, just a lot of questions that I don’t hear other artists asking.
~Malcolm Wilson

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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What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
~Jaron Lanier

It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.
~Daniel James Brown

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.
~Mistinguett

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.
~Albert Camus

Her stardust was a question mark,
and his an exclamation point —
together they had all the answers.
~Terri Guillemets

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music, about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
~Anthony Trollope

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we’re supposed to be monogamous when we’re not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
~Rachel Hunter

I think people are born bisexual and they make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
~Megan Fox

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
~Edith Wharton

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
~Nick Cannon

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
~Willard Scott

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
~Maya Angelou

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~Jack Northover:  Question Mark   (4:18)   dream-like question — worth trying again?
https://vimeo.com/123822715

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~Moody Blues:  Question   (4:50)   classic questions in a classic song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTLNNLBKPaA

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~Myra Sky:  Question Mark   (4:00)   lyric driven, danceable, catchy
https://vimeo.com/64859056

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~Apelix Loves Art:  Question Mark   (6:28)   montage of musics and movement
https://vimeo.com/30308676

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~Shrink the Giant:  Question Mark   (4:18)   small venue concert
https://vimeo.com/283234644

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~hollywoodgrrl:  Doctor Who || A Question Mark   (2:40)   for Doctor Who fans
https://vimeo.com/3925685

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~Billie Ocean:  Question Is   (4:24)   the question is how
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3xKCO0eyU

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~Elvis Presley:  Easy Question   (2:18)   dated dating scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH7Gkd7NlYo

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~Tamia:  Questions   (3:28) questions at the end of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUSOq4dw7Y4

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~Depeche Mode:  A Question of Time   (5:34)   stylish  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yue19KU9g

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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’
~Sigmund Freud

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree.
~W C Fields

Militant feminists are prochoice because it’s their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
~Rush Limbaugh

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There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says ‘no,’ then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
~Marie Osmond

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
~Marie Curie

When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.’
~Barbara Corcoran

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad – experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there’s no question women are paid less. Women don’t ask.
~Dee Dee Myers

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can’t answer, things that I’m worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.
~Jodi Picoult

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is ‘How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?’ I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
~Josefina Vazquez Mota

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
~Victoria Woodhull

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.
~Gloria Steinem

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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.
~Douglas Adams

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
~Joey Adams

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
~Scott Adams

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
~Lily Tomlin

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.
~George Foreman

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life’s questions is often in people’s faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people’s faces. People’s faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
~Amy Poehler

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
~George Bernard Shaw

…and when, at some later date, it is punished for asking too many questions, it thinks up enough additional questions during its punishment to make the Encyclopedia Britannica look sick.
~Ellen Parr

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there’s a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
~Sarah Zettel

I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
~Al McGuire

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
~William James

And there is no question but that you can’t sustain a mood, a dramatic mood of any particular kind, when at the end of the climactic moment of the scene, out come a couple of dancing rabbits with toilet paper. ~Rod Serling

To me, I’ve never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
~Judd Apatow

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Knock Turn
© Greg Thweatt

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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
~Gore Vidal

If you ask any one of them a question, he will pull out some little enigmatic phrase from his quiver and shoot it off at you; and if you try to make him give an account of what he has said, you will only get hit by another, full of strange turns of language.
~Plato

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.
~Prince Andrew

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Attacks on a politician’s identity – questioning Romney’s religion, say, or Obama’s birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can’t sell himself.
~Jon Meacham

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
~Andre Maurois

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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
~Golda Meir

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

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It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn’t want the question raised, ‘What’s your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?’ And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn’t want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash – which the FBI had been going through.
~Daniel Ellsberg

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
~John Sununu

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
~Daniel Inouye

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
~Wendell Willkie

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
~Ken Burns

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What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
~Tony Campolo

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
~Natan Sharansky

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Don’t underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.
~Ron Fournier

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
~Howard Dean

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
~Irving Babbitt

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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
~Friedrich August von Hayek

Just as the left has to be more willing to question ‘Government knows best,’ the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
~Jack Kemp

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples’ money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people’s freedom and security.
~William F Buckley, Jr

I am conservative with a small ‘c.’ It’s possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
~Mick Jagger

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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
~Otto von Bismarck

Once boys’ and men’s challenges are clear, the question ‘why now’ quickly becomes ‘why didn’t we see this sooner?’ The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
~Warren Farrell

Religion is run by thought police. ‘Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don’t ask questions. Go die for your country.’ …spirituality says, ‘Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you’re doing while you’re doing it.’
~Tommy Chong

I don’t think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There’s always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
~Jesse Ventura

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
~James Madison

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
~Pope John Paul II

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
~Fredrik Bajer

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
~H L Mencken

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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
~David Mamet

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
~Kurt Russell

Both sides of a question do not belong to the poor old question at all, but to the opposing views which bedevil it.
~Henry Haskins

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By asking the question ‘Am I happy?,’ and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – ‘Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?’
~Alastair Campbell

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
~John Stuart Mill

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixedup world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
~Timothy Garton Ash

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Young man, never fall into the error of supposing that interest in these great questions must be beneath you. It cannot. The man who thinks himself above politics is making a double mistake.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
~Ann Patchett

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@Writers Platform

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
~Rockwell Kent

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
~Charlie Chaplin

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You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won’t necessarily help you in making art.
~Maya Lin

There is no mystery to creation. To create is to respond. The question is not, What am I writing about?, but rather, What am I responding to?
~Gavin McCrea

Artschwager’s art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you’re looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
~Jerry Saltz

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing.
~Fernand Leger

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The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
~Larry Flynt

Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: “Are your ready?”
~Johnny Carson

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
~Joseph Campbell

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I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can
~John Lennon

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
~George Oppen

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so.
~Norman MacCaig

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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 Ammons

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
~Vicente Aleixandre

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

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 the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
~Milan Kundera

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don’t, there’s no hope for you.
~Orson Scott Card

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§ GLASS TABLE

~bckpakr:  excerpt • Trip to Greece

Once on that boat, I was surrounded by people and languages I didn’t know; I would have felt more at home if I had heard French, Italian, German, or some other language that I knew or at least recognized, but there was none of it!

These people didn’t even look the same, and after having no home to return to, this increased my loneliness in that moment more than I had felt in a long time!

I went up to the top of the ship where no-one else was, and stared into the absolute blackness of the night, in the direction the ship was heading, with the sea wind full in my face.

Not a star could be seen, and feeling the growing distance from the land I knew behind me as I was pulled further and further away from it, together with knowing I had no means to get back to it whatsoever.

That’s when the panic set in!

(to be cont.)

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~LK7:  Which Animal

Which animal is which animal?

And which animal knows?

My cats don’t know.

One presides over the waters.

Another one barks.

Bu which animal knows?

All protect us thru all.

My oldest is my youngest.

Still the tiniest thing.

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Still the Heart of Mine.

Animals don’t know.

That is their gift.

Animals don’t know.

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Unless they do?

 

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My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
~Esther Williams

The question of religion was a matter for each individual’s conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
~James Larkin

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It’s perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they’ll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
~A N Wilson

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
~Marilyn Ferguson

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
~Thomas Jefferson

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
~Blaise Pascal

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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in ‘Night.’ I questioned God’s silence. So I questioned. I don’t have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
~Elie Wiesel

…I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God’s mind?
~Freeman Dyson

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
~Jon Meacham

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
~Henry Adams

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
~Deepak Chopra

Don’t question God, for He may reply: If you’re so anxious for answers, come up here.
~Freeman Dyson

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best — and therefore never scrutinize or question.
~Stephen Jay Gould

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can’t do it and I won’t do it.
~Joey Skaggs

A skeptic doubts the best authority; an enthusiast is likely to accept the poorest.
~James Lendall Basford

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
~Orson Scott Card

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
~Jimmy Carter

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
~Stephen Hawking

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
~Thomas Jefferson

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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
~Maggie Gallagher

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
~C S Lewis

It is not every question that deserves an answer.
~Publilius Syrus

Every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
~Elie Wiesel

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “How?” but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “Why?”
~Erwin Chargaff

The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn’t seem to matter.
~Christopher Morley

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Exercise Prompt:   question

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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
~Chanakya

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
~James Allen

There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~Johnny Depp

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
~Immanuel Kant

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The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
~David Herbert Lawrence

That’s a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
~Peter Singer

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
~G K Chesteron

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To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes.
~Giada De Laurentiis

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~Bono

I don’t think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they’re black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That’s what we’re upset about.
~Toni Morrison

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
~Franz Kafka

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§ THE EXERCISE

gone cycling

birth and rebirth
this world too
planets
like organisms
as all beings do
die out to make room
whose time has come due

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adrift

the future rippling forward
towards me
the past crashing on rocks
behind me
oblivious to life in the water
below me
innertubing currents of time
that surround me

the question of life and its depth
mystifying me
four dimensions with a fifth one
electrifying me
the wisdom of acceptance
defying me
the loss of you and your love
crucifying me

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bio

the best audience
you’ll ever have
the hungriest eyes
that ever lived

learning to leave it
voyaging the world
diving and mining
slime covered pearls

a one-life season
one time chance
to live the story
or pretend romance

chasing serendipty
instantly passed
treating the present
as ongoing past

hang out at stay-overs
the question survival
same settled endpoint
departure’s arrival

eternal anonymity
ploughed into earth
dust on the water
of negligible worth

answers at last
or find my end
a vapor at peace
adrift on the wind

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5s & 7s

foolhardy venture
stranded on a limb with views
same gnawing question
wild honey hive or wasp nest
the bears below wait to see

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to be or not be
frank question of survival
for generations
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begging the question
assume the answer is love
please, pop the question

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd’s crook floating in the air above that small round rock.
~Dick Allen

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
~Carl Jung

If you want the answer, ask the question.
~Lorii Myers

Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.
~Jane Hirshfield

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The question is not Can they reason?, nor Can they talk?, but Can they suffer?
~Jeremy Bentham

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
~George Eliot

Maybe one day the world will change, that we’ll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it’s inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn’t matter right now.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

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One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
~Malcolm Forbes

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
~Og Mandino

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The question, I’ve come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world.
~Alfred A Montapert

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
~Oscar Wilde

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
~Margaret Mead

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Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right question.
~Anonymous

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
~Anonymous

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning
~Anonymous

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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
~John Steinbeck

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
~Henry David Thoreau

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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
~William Burroughs

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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
~Henry David Thoreau

The question of whether it’s God’s green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
~Edward Hoagland

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Questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we must know them.
~Ayn Rand

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