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“Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what freedom represents, hates the fact that we fight for freedom worldwide, hates our prosperity, hates our way of life? Have we been unwilling to face that very difficult reality?”
“Are any of these anxieties or beliefs about my past real? Maybe I'm just making them up⎯re-creating the past.
I have to smile as I look at what I just wrote. I can tell when my solitary exploration becomes too threatening, or when I'm treading close to a memory too frightening to be remembered. Rather than push through unfamiliar brush, I stomp the well-worn path of "Maybe I'm making all of this up." But retreating there no longer makes sense to me.”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“Are any of you out there worried that it means something bad that [Donald] Trump has decided not to prosecute Hillary [Clinton]? I'm just asking, because I'm hearing from people who are.”
“Are anybody's parents typical?”
“Are apps here to make life simpler or more complicated? Are you working remotely or being worked remotely? Who’s in control here—you or forces seemingly beyond your control?”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
Source: Revolutionary Road
“Are bacon and chocolate the foundation of a good meal? No, everybody knows
that is a deep fryer and/or gravy. However, I have long held the notion that you can't name a food that I can't improve by adding either bacon or chocolate.”
Source: It's Called Helping...You're Welcome
“Are broken people meant to be broken forever?”
Source: Peyton
“Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done something, is there an if in the offing--suppressed, it may be, but due nevertheless to appear when we set out our sentence in full or when we give an explanation of its meaning?”
“Are category 6 supermassive hurricanes the future?”
“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“Are Child Molesters Really Just Victims Themselves?
"All victims are offenders," one professional challenged me at a conference, "and all offenders are victims. How does your work address that?"
My work doesn't address that because I don't believe there's any evidence for that assertion. Obviously, not all victims are offenders, but it is also likely that most offenders weren't victims. The studies that find a high proportion of child molesters who were victims of child sexual abuse themselves are almost always based on self-report, and even there, study results differ dramatically. Studies show the number of child molesters who were themselves molested as children ranges from 22 percent in some studies to 82 percent in others.[101]”
Source: Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders
“Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?”
“Are Class Captains and School Prefects managers or leaders? Schools miss it when they assign a student to discipline other students. Class captains and school prefects are leaders not managers. A Leader is on A MISSION not on A DUTY. And being a leader goes beyond expecting compliance from others, which is what managers do. If your school assigns prefect to enforce compliance in any way you are doing it all wrong. For one, seeking compliance from anyone is complicated and it comes with a position that "demands" respect and thus you are putting such children at a risk of being hated by their peers. Prefect should be examples not authority figures, plus they should be trained to act like leaders should, if you also don't train them, you are doing it too wrong. Here are some of those "things" you should train your prefect: 1. Active listening 2. How to help their peers and other students find meaning in learning 3. How to make others students wellbeing and safety their priority. 4. How to inspire others and lead by example. Charity begins from school too. Your prefects can learn people skills that can guarantee their future right from your school. Your prefects should be assets to your school because of what they can learn to do now to become better in future not because of what they can do for your school now, which obviously is very little.”
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So, are they the same? Absolutely not.
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Source: Billy Feels Brave
“Are condoms methods of birth control or weapons of mass destruction?”
“Are Cops Now America’s Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists?”
Source: The Permit
“Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet; and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or growth of reefs over the bottom is impossible.”
“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Are damaging data practices and systems capable of reform?
Re-evaluate your relationship to data and assess whether existing practices and systems are capable of reform. If reform seems possible, question who is best placed undertake this work. When reform fails, or efforts to reform risk keeping a damaging system alive for longer, consider if an abolitionist approach might put data in the hands of those most in need.”
Source: Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
“Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?”
“Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?”
“Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?”
“Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.”
“Are doctors of divinity blind or are they hypocrites?”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.”
Source: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
“Are dreams less real because they are temporary? Or are fleeting, moving, changing things examples of their own kind of reality, a different speed?…The sea is a dream.”
Source: Transfigured Sea
“Are dreams planted in the ground without making a sound?
And absorbed by our feet making rhythms and beats?”
Source: Where Do Dreams Come From?
“Are fairies kind? Do they like humans?
“Of course, they love humans very much and, in some ways, aspire to be like humans. They are the link, if you like, between the plant world and the human world, they are from both realms. They love you all, very much, but they wish more of you would believe in their existence, so that you could see them. Even you, cannot yet see them, although you know that they are there, as you fear your higher psychic talents.”
Oh, so it is like in children’s stories, if you don’t believe in fairies as adults do, you cannot see them?
“Yes exactly, where do you think the writer got their ideas from, it was from the fairy realm? Children are more likely to see fairies, as they are more believing and delighted in what their eyes see. It is only when adults, then judge what the children are seeing, that the children shut down their psychic senses that enabled them to see the fairies in the first place.” – Gum Tree Fairies”
Source: The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words
“Are faith and compassion going to save us or should we rely on strength and vigilance to keep our opponents away? Where do we draw the line? Is it a fictitious trust in kindness or a real conviction in power?”
Source: The Sage and the General: A Spiritual Fable About Transcending Conflict and Achieving Peace
“Are fools egoistic or are egoists fools? This is debatable, but there is no doubt that if the person is both a fool and an egoist, he is a threat.”
Source: Quantraz
“Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed, the more recent numbers show that there is now evidence of significant cooling [...] Mankind is responsible for just a fraction of one percent of the effect from greenhouse gases, and greenhouse gases are not responsible for most of what causes warming (e.g., the Sun).”
“Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.”
“Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?”
Source: Andromeda: And Other Poems
“Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?”
Source: A Different Familiar
“Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?”
“Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.”
“Are happiness and virtue synonymous with living as truthfully and honorably as possible or do these concepts allow for certain mental deceptions? Is a gullible person or a shrewd person more likely to be happy? Is a foolish or wise person more likely to live guiltlessly? What is more essential to living a contented life, accumulation of knowledge or the ability to feel and effusively express compassion for other people? Can we maintain happiness by acting as harsh judges of ourselves while acting as kindhearted judges of other people? Does happiness entail releasing an underground river of long suppressed passion or does it require living an aboveboard life of disciple-like moderation? Should I strive to modulate my desires by laboring diligently to maintain a disciplined mental and spiritual homeostasis? Alternatively, should I take calculated risks and passionately immerse myself in all facets of a tumultuous life?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Are- her experiences at the Copacabana, she knew that she wasn't the only person who felt lonely. Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. Like her, these men, and the many others who sought her company, were all tormented by that same destructive feeling, the sense that no one else on the planet cared about them.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Are human beings noble like the lion? Or are they like the crocodile? I suppose it depends on the person. Many are like the crocodile, but there are some who are like the lion. Once there were more. But as a species we have become like the crocodile in our greed. Now we do not take things because we need them, but just to take them, or for sport which is wrong.”
Source: From Whence The Rivers Run
“Are Human, Support Human (Sonnet 2520)
AI fakes will rise, AI fakes will fall,
and you can never tell them apart,
but one thing these vermin must be
petrified of, is to be exposed -
never tolerate AI slop as normal,
just like you no longer
tolerate the nazis as normal.
To nourish creativity
you must be intolerant of fakes,
for humanity to flourish
you must be intolerant of prejudice.
Those who make AI fakes
and those who knowingly
consume them are equally garbage,
those who howl prejudice and
those who stay silent are equally savage.
Some century when AI does become self aware,
then we might have to reconsider our ethics,
until then preserve human art at all cost,
and banish every last AI slop in the bin.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Are humans not consciousness floating in-between the mind with nothing above or below, other than a body with a gravitational pull that spins with-in an earth on an axis with nothing above or below? Is the meaning not just a form of being within this magnificent process?”
“Are imperfections is which make we grate.”
“Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.”
“Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.”
“Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?”
“Are many court jesters also bards?” Linetta questioned.
“Any true jaemythe is,” Cornelius said, as if to
suggest that the best of each must be his kind. He bowed low, his large eyes meeting hers. “‘We are masters of mirth and ancient song,’ so sayeth an age-old verse. For, there are always riddles to be had in the mind and heart of a jaemythe.”
Source: Prince of Chandeliers
“Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.”
Source: Indiscrete Thoughts
“are memories pictures or the secret doorway?”