Harry S Truman Quotes
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
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I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
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Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
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I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
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Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.
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The resulting weird system must have so puzzled my examiners that they couldn't or wouldn't ask any telling questions at my oral defense.
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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
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Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
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I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!
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If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Let people hate you so long as they fear you.
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Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.
