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Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.”

“How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.”

Ifs Children Helping Simple Answers Students Amount Capable Treats Complicated Mediocre Dependable

Author:Haim Ginott

“Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.”

Love Said Death Answers Thee Silver

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780

“All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.”

Men Doe Philosophy Answers Bread Substance Zero Nothingness Affirmation Nihilism Saying No Blocked Saying Yes Yes Or No

Author:Victor Hugo

“A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.”

Men Life Mind Doe Life Is Given Answers Modern Sensible Worth Living Modern Man Life Is Worth Living

Author:Erich Fromm

“The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.”

Needs Wisdom Asks Answers Right Questions

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.”

Today Used Politics Given Force Answers Audience Creative Offers Mass Entertainment Yesterday Passive Packages Participating Successors

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.”

Thinking Knows Facts Answers Doubt Dog No Doubt Tails Wags Wag The Dog

Book:The letters of Lewis Carroll

Source: The letters of Lewis Carroll

“So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.”

Answers Singing Woods Mythology Rings Brides Orpheus

Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings

“I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.”

Mean Home Father House Answers Degrees Misfortunes Exile

Author:James Joyce

“Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.”

Firsts Friendship Answers Friendly Converses Salute Courteous Pensive

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

“Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.”

Stories Eye Remember Answers Poor Corners Phrases Find Me Poke Disraeli

Book:A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”