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“The question of identity has always been a murky issue in my own life and my writing bounces that right back. My father was adamant that my sisters and I were "Arab," and even though our house was in Syracuse, it was filled with the food, language, music, and overbearing relatives of Jordan. Unlike my gorgeous sisters, though, I inherited my mother's lighter complexion - it really is amazing what a difference a little bit of pigment can make on a person's experience!”
“The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.”
“The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.”
“The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.”
“The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold.”
“The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say - they differ on the timing: We say it's already there; they say that if we don't do something different, we're going to face apartheid.”
“The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries.”
Source: Any Ordinary Day
“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.”
“The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.”
“The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.”
“The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.”
“The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.”
“The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.”
“The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.”
“The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens.”
“The question of physical attractiveness is one of the most sensitive issues of female psychology. Never speak openly about the fact that no woman can be for you a rival for beauty. Women can forgive you almost everything, but not such a deadly mistake.”
“The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
“The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.”
Source: The Man Versus the State: Containing
“The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.”
“The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.”
“The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).”
Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order
“The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.”
“The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.”
“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.”
“The Question of Sigmund Freud, namely what Women want, can't be answered with Certainty in my View, because too often, they don't even know (what they want[?]) themselves — but you can say what they need, namely passionate Warmth & passionate Coldness, in the right Degrees, at the right Time.. Probably what they need, is also what they want.”
“The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.”
“The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.”
Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
“The question of surrender is political, it is not a question of love. And relationship is not love at all; it means love has ended and relationship has begun. It begins very soon after the honeymoon - mostly in the middle of the honeymoon. It is not easy to live with another person whose life-style is different, whose likings are different, whose education and culture is different, and above all the other happens to be a woman - even their biology is different.”
“The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.”
“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”
“The question of the moral status of wealth, and the relation of Christian faith to issues of economic justice and responsibility, seems to me one of the areas in which Christians are most confused, divided, and uneasy.”
Source: Wealth as Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on Possessions
“The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.”
“The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed.”
Source: The origin of life
“The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science - everything can be created from nothing. It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.”
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most nearly allied to him, than they are from one another.”
Source: Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate its claim - and by 'science' we simply mean the notion of a universal, autonomous reason. Science, then, is opposed to narrative, which attempts not to prove its claims but rather to proclaim them within a story.”
Source: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
“The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.”
“The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.”
“The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.”
“The question of the teaching authority of the bishops in general was followed by that of Vatican II in particular, upon which the judgment of Fr. Pierre Marie, editor of the French Traditional Dominicans' quarterly magazine, Le Sol de la Torre, was quite severe. Proceeding in logical order, he examined first whether the Council documents come under the Church's extraordinary or ordinary infallibility - not under extraordinary infallibility, he argued, because both Pope John XXIII and Paul VI explicitly said the Council was making no definitive declarations; nor under ordinary infallibility, both because (see above) the Church's bishops were no longer scattered at Vatican II, but gathered together in such a group as to expose them to group pressures which could and did falsify their judgments; and because the bishops of Vatican II presented none of their doctrines as requiring defectively to be believed.
Nor, Fr. Pierre Marie went on to argue, are these doctrines even part of the Church's authentic (i.e. ordinary, non-universal) teaching, because the bishops expressed no intention to hand down the Deposit of the Faith, on the contrary their spokesmen (e.g. Paul VI) expressed their intention to come to terms with the modern world and its values, long condemned by true Catholic churchmen as being intrinsically uncatholic. Therefore, concluded Fr. Pierre Marie, the documents of Vatican II have only a Conciliar authority, the authority of that Council, but no Catholic authority at all, and no Catholic need take seriously anything Vatican II said, unless it was already Church doctrine beforehand. Letter #148 March 1996”
Source: Letters from the Rector of St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary: Volume 3 The Winona Letters: part 2
“The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”
“The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.”
“The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.”
“The question of what makes life meaningful has to be answered personally (even if our conclusions are marked by no particular idiosyncrasy). Others cannot be relied upon to determine what will be meaningful to us. What we call ‘crises of meaning’ are generally moments when someone else’s – perhaps very well-intentioned – interpretation of what might be meaningful to us runs up against a growing realisation of our divergent tastes and interests.
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“The thing that causes you pain, you will enjoy that later.”
“The question of what propels artists forward remains a mystery, even to them. I’ve spoken often with James McMurtry over the years, and he tends to shrug off grand explanations. He writes songs. He travels. If he’s lucky, he said, he’ll sing something that someone feels they ought to hear. That modest perspective contains its own kind of wisdom. Songwriters rarely claim to have the answers. Instead, they keep asking questions—about love, loss, identity, and the strange business of being alive.”
Source: Troubadour Truths: Truth, Songs, and the Long Way Home
“The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.”
Source: Destined
“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
“The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.”
Source: MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY
“The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.”
Source: Sophie's World
“The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.”