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When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justifed merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgements of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence. They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

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"For every complex question, there is a simple answer

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Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

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A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

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Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

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Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It's not the time that matters But how you answer the door.

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Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

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There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.

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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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The shortest answer is doing.

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