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Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
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questioning
path
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Garth Nix |
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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.
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war
politics
change
happiness
philosophy
contests
data
popular
brilliance
taxation
information
motion
questioning
worry
facts
government
peace
ignorance
thinking
forget
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Ray Bradbury |
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There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.
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hate
love
falling-out
love-to-hate
divorce
questioning
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Raymond Carver |
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Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.
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past
life
inspirational
questioning
regret
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Colleen Hoover |
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"My mother and father were always pushing me away from secondhand answers--even the answers they themselves believed. I don't know that I have ever found any satisfactory answers of my own. But every time I ask it, the question is refined. That is the best of what the old heads meant when they spoke of being "politically conscious"--as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty."
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meaning
life
certainty
questioning
questions
searching
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?
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questioning
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
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doubt
questioning
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Walt Whitman |
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I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk with him.
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sorrow
god
questioning
friend
talk
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Nicholas Sparks |
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"Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, "sensible" religion may not be doing that. But it is making the world safe for fundamentalism by teaching children, from their earliest years, that unquestioning faith is a virtue."
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religion
questioning
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Richard Dawkins |
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"Nothing is mightier than our why, nothing stands above it, because in the end there is a why to which no answer is possible. In fact, from why to why, from one step to the next, you get to the end of things. And it is only by travelling from one why to the next, as far as the why that is unanswerable, that man attains the level of the creative principle, facing the infinite, equal to the infinite maybe. So long as he can answer the why he gets lost, he loses his way among things. 'Why this?' I answer, 'because that," and from one explanation to the next I reach the point where no explanation is satisfying, from one explanation to the next I reach zero, the absolute, where truth and falsehood are equivalent, become equal to one another, are identified with one another, cancel each other out in face of the absolute nothing. And so we can understand how all action, all choice, all history is justified, at the end of time, by a final cancelling-out. The why goes beyond everything. Nothing goes beyond the why, not even the nothing, because the nothing is not the explanation; when silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate why, that great why is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out, there is nothing more to make out."
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why
questioning
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Eugène Ionesco |
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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it
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questioning
ignorance
curiosity
knowledge
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Alain de Botton |
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Asking questions were the most important thing.
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questioning
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Franz Kafka |
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People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much. A single avenue of reasoning followed to its logical conclusion would bring them straight home to the truth. But they stop just short of it, over and over again. When they have only to reach out and grasp the idea that would explain everything, they decide that the search is hopeless. The search is never hopeless. There is no haystack so large that the needle in it cannot be found. But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.
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truth
searching-and-finding
questioning
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William Maxwell |
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A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.
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openness
questioning
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.
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openness
questioning
parenthood
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?
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margaret-atwood
the-robber-bride
similarities
musing
questioning
question
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Margaret Atwood |
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Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything their predecessors and peers have already announced to be true. They run a very real risk of jeopardizing their careers if they do. In consequence they focus--perhaps to a large extent subconsciously--on evidence and arguments that don't upset the applecart. There might be room for some tinkering around the edges, some refinement of orthodox ideas, but God forbid that anything should be discovered that might seriously undermine the established paradigm.
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truth
careers
predecessors
jeopardy
conservative
questioning
orthodoxy
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Graham Hancock |
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I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.
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sex
funny
antlers
deer
deer-getting-antlers
humerous
period
sexual-intercourse
teen-girl
puberty
butterfly
moth
questioning
changes
girl
teen
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
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The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.
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questioning
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Raymond Chandler |
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Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand.
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teacher-quotes
classroom
questioning
class
teach
teacher
questions
teaching
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Ann Patchett |