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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Past, Blame

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Morning

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

Wise, Fool, Learn

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud

Great, Woman, Soul

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Live, Through

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln

Business, Made, Try

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Johnny Depp

Life, Love, Made

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Advice, Matter

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain

Said, Able, Gratified

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Him

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Theodore Roosevelt

Guilty, Whether, Present

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

Wish, Gods, Prayers

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley

Forward, Moving, Focus

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon

Life, Love, Peace

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William Shakespeare

Please, Bound, Thee

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
John Lennon

Love, Flower, Sure

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken

Simple, Problem, Wrong

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali

Good, Silence, Golden

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon

Show, Gave, Sixties

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz

Song, Bird, Sing

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

Government, Today, Cannot

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
Marilyn Monroe

Hurt, Sometimes, Tell

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
Marilyn Monroe

Someone, Give, Said

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus

Getting, Question, Yes

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau

Greatest, Thought, Asked

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Made, Broken, Dream

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Bernard Meltzer

Yourself, True, Before

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

Until, Legs, Twenty

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm

Love, Human, Problem

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