Reply Quotes
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Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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(In reply to 'So, you could technically eat a human?') "Could and would.”
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well.
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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People say, 'I'm only suing for the principle of the thing,' and I reply that I can't give you principle - only money.
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.
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I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.
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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
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Science and Religion both fail to give a reasonable reply. Science does not pretend to be able to give the solution, saying that the examination of things as they are is enough of a task; religion offers an explanation both illogical and unmeaning and acceptable but to the bigot, as it requires us to consider the whole of Nature as a mystery and to seek for the meaning and purpose of life with all its sorrow in the pleasure of a God who cannot be found out. The educated and enquiring mind knows that dogmatic religion can only give an answer invented by man while it pretends to be from God.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
