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“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
“Utter originality is, of course, out of the question”
Ezra Pound
“It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.”
George Bush
“A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.”
Garson Kanin
“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best”
Thomas Sowell
“To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question.”
Shannen Doherty
“There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
Toni Morrison
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.”
Stephen Jay Gould
“If your friend says of some picture, "Yes, but what does it mean?" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes”
Stephen Potter
“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer”
Alice Wellington Rollins