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The Question

«The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.»
«The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.»
«The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.»
«The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.»
«The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.»
«The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?»
«Surprise me. [Answering his wife Carmen to the question: If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?]»
«There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.»
«The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?»
«The falseness of an opinion is not, for us, any objection to it. The question is how far it is life furthering, life preserving, species preserving and perhaps species creating.»

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