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• Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. (John Adams) [/question/america/willpower]
• The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. (Joseph Addison) [question/willpower/willpower/life]
• If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fifty years? and What do you want your life to be like five years from now? the answers are quite often preceded by Provided there is still a world and Provided I am still alive. To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are. (Hannah Arendt) [generation/life/question/question]
• A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. (Francis Bacon) [question/surprise]
• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. (Francis Bacon) [prudent/question/wisdom]
• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. (James Baldwin) [question/motion/love]
• The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited. (Arnold Bennett) [question/pleasure/right/right]
• Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. (Bertolt Brecht) [question/class]
• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. (Samuel Butler) [life/question]
• Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. (Albert Camus) [question]
• Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. (Thomas Carlyle) [life/question]
• The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. (Benjamin Disraeli) [question/lord]
• I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [look/question]
• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [marriage/question/wish/wish]
• Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [library/willpower/question/willpower]
• Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [question/question/immortality/willpower]
• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [action/question]
• The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. (Henry Ford) [question]
• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [question]
• Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [weakness/education/question]
• People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being. (Vaclav Havel) [people/system/question/power]
• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two. (William Hazlitt) [question]
• To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. (Eric Hoffer) [question]
• Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. (Eric Hoffer) [question/question/literature/wonder]
• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [question]
• It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. (Thomas Jefferson) [question]
• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. (Thomas Jefferson) [question/god/more/fear]
• If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied. (Rudyard Kipling) [question]
• For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? (Milan Kundera) [situation/question/human]
• It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [question/child]
• Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. (Abraham Lincoln) [question/mankind/rest]

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