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"A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense." »Erich Fromm
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"The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question." »B. J. Gupta
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"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species." »Desmond Morris
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"Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied." »Kedar Joshi
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"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like." »Jackie Mason
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"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." »E. W. Dijkstra
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." »Jeseph Joubert
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"Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question." »Tennessee Williams
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"It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together." »Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality
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"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." »Chinese Proverb
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"He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever." »Tom J. Connelly
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"The question is not what you look at but what you see." »Thoreau
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"The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done." »Allard Lowenstein
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"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." »Joan Borysenko
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"What you are is a question only you can answer." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"There are two sides to every question." »Protagoras
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"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be." »Golda Meir
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"He who fails to question is asking for trouble." »Paul Aubuchon
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"To ask the hard question is simple." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them." »David Reisman
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"When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"There is more learning in the question itself than the answer." »Andrew Weremy
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"Never answer a hypothetical question." »Moshe Arens
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"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." »Eugene Ionesco
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"What if this weren't a hypothetical question" »Unknown
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"Ignorance never settles a question." »Benjamin Disraeli
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