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“Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.”

Ifs Want Should Firsts Looks Answers Economics

Author:Emily Oster

“Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.”

Ifs Passion Answers Love You

Book:Slammed

Source: Slammed

“Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again! I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. Particularly, it was only Islam that provided satisfactory answer to the question relating to the birth of Christ. For the first time I was convinced about the religion itself. I pray my family members might appreciate these facts.”

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Author:Jermaine Jackson

“Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.”

Ifs Knows Should Feelings Asks Difficult Decision Answers Walks Mistake Struggle Focus Produce Willing Foolish Making Mistakes Remove Rejected Difficult Decisions

Book:What I Know For Sure

Source: What I Know For Sure

“If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.”

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well - well - well, I, - I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am?”

People Ifs Men Giving Should Wells Christian Asks Answers Doubt Heard Ask Me

Book:Heaven

Source: Heaven

“The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.”

Ifs Trying May Different Reason Seems Answers Tomorrow Interviews Personal Question

Author:William Faulkner

“When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.”

Ifs Answers Appeasement

Author:Ronald Reagan

“What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.”

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.”

“The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we can answer 'yes' to the question. 'Is my self-worth as strong as my self-critic?' then we are ready to engage our creative expression.”

Ifs Ideas Self Moving Individual Strong Answers Creativity Creative Fields Ready Expression Critics Self Worth Creative Expression My Self Worth Moving Out

Author:Angeles Arrien

“I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.”

Ifs Writing Facts Song Answers Neurosis Therapeutic

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.”

Ifs Men World Jesus Christ Answers Jesus Christ Deny Divinity Denied

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.”

Ifs Enough Answers Weapons Murder Urgent Plumber Wrenches

Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

“How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?”

Ifs Men Way Should Firsts States Whole Individual Answers Depends Regard Whole Life Therapy Chemicals Autonomy Dependency Replacements Steroid Contraceptives

Author:Germaine Greer

“I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.”

Ifs Long Important Character Three Enjoy Answers Attitude Amount Skills Research Asking Conviction Legs Lasting Stools Long Lasting

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.”

Ifs Humans Problem Answers Solutions Perpetual Predicaments

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.”

Ifs Giving Looks Hard Enough Feelings Answers Absence Certainty Best Things Deep Feeling

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.”

Ifs World Littles War Today Answers Preparation World Today

Author:Norman Mailer

“To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.”

Ifs Knows Giving Long Book Past Asks Given Answers Written Periods Ask Me This Day Given Up

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.”

Ifs Mind Humans Asks Answers Human Mind Doubtful

Author:R. D. Laing

“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.”

People Ifs World Way Want Mean Stills I Can Book Culture Reading Asks Answers Fiction Changed Return Reader Scandal

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.”

Ifs Want Humans Littles Hard Bits Can Do Answers New York Depends Couple Solitude Little Bit Lonely Towns Phones London Paris Solitary You Can Do It Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Arman

“The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.”

Ifs Jobs Can Do Answers Knowing Teacher Teaching Students Exciting Sells Excited Goods Stirring

Author:Julius Sumner Miller

“Faith is lifeless unless you act on it. T.L. Osbourne says: “When the promises of God are believed and acted upon they become the power of God”. We can do all the things we have previously talked about about: desire, decision, prayer, speaking faith, seeing the answer, but if we don’t act our faith it is all to no avail.”

Ifs Desire Can Do Prayer Decision Answers Seeing Promise Power Of God Lifeless

Author:Phil Pringle

“If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.”

Ifs Men Writing Wells Long Suffering Answers Drunk Liver

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.”

Ifs Answers Hell Fire Refuse Questioning Alas Observance

Author:Georges Bernanos

“It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.”

“Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.”

People Ifs Men Should Children Care Mother Father Community Answers Middle Should Have Responsible Comment Bores Looking Good Middle Aged Child Care

Author:Margaret Mead

“Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?”

Ifs Thinking World Matter Answers Numbers Heard Return Infinite Asking Worthy Accidents Multitudes Lamentation

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.”

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship.”

Ifs Believe Heart Pain Together Answers Knowing Lovers Mirrors Not Knowing

Author:Mary Renault

“Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.”

Ifs Force Answers Virtue Taught Speech Patience Angry Conquer Desert Forbearance Vanquish

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."”

Ifs Men Believe Humans Mean Nations Differences Human Beings Answers Race Depends Conscious Superiors Despise

Author:Enoch Powell

“The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.”

Source: On God and Political Duty: Calvin

“If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.”

Ifs Answers Politician Asking

Author:John Major

“I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.”

Ifs Knows Facts Christian Suffering Evil Found Answers Christianity Boys Balance Bigger Asking Gentle Good And Evil Eastern Altars Temperance

Author:Tim Allen

“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.”

Ifs Knows Want May Said Answers Mistake Honest Masters Atheist Want Me Disciple You Want Me Affirming Theist If You Want Me

Author:Anthony de Mello

“If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.”

Ifs Asks Answers Rights Response Honestly Constitutional Rights Porcelain

Author:Robert X. Cringely

“The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on US soil.”

Ifs War Courses Answers Enemy Century Policy One Day Weapons Weak Terror Terrorism Soil Republic Intervention Great War

Author:Pat Buchanan

“If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .”

Ifs Order Language Community Answers Accepting Clear Prove Dominant Misunderstanding

Author:James Callaghan

“Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.”

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Book:Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

Source: Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

“I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.”

Ifs Values Asks Answers Attitude Security Depends Valuable Investors Analysts Right Questions

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.”

Ifs Want Believe Answers Want Something

Author:Rick Springfield

“I'm kinda wishy-washy about questions. If you ask me again tomorrow, I'm likely to give you completely different answers.”

Ifs Giving Different Asks Answers Tomorrow Ask Me

Author:Jabari Asim

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