"It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask."

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Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1947). “Mathematics as a culture clue: and other essays”

Cassius Jackson Keyser

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“Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?”

Source : The Clear Light of Day ch. 1 (1980)
“Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On the Ropes, and I'd probably be in sympathy with a different one on any given day, depending on what's going on in the world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We don't work for each other, We work with each other.”
“No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder (1995). “Words from a Fearless Heart: A Collection of Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
“There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.”
“How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?”

Source : John Corvino (2013). “What's Wrong with Homosexuality?”, p.4, Oxford University Press
“Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.”
“And what fate befalls mutineers?”

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