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• A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Wedding, Real, Simple

  Alexander McCall Smith (2011). “The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.

  Bill James

  Real, Thinking, Interesting

  "Writer Bill James". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• Creo que la cultura alimentaria de América está imbricada en la cultura de la comida rápida. Y la verdadera cuestión que se nos plantea es: ¿Cómo vamos a enseñar valores de comida lenta en un mundo de comida rápida? Por supuesto, es muy, muy difícil de hacer, especialmente cuando los niños han crecido comiendo comida rápida y los valores que van con ella.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

  Chris Thile

  Song, Real, Roots

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• In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?

  Bryan Stevenson

  Real, Pensamiento, Gente

  "We need to talk about an injustice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

  William James

  Real, Design, World

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.40, 谷月社

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• La industria de servicios financieros ha parecido tratar la crisis como una pequeña lluvia: inconveniente, pero sin necesidad de cambios significativos. La verdadera cuestión de cara al futuro es cómo responderá el sector a la reforma de Wall Street y a la creciente indignación de la opinión pública.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Wall, Real, Moving

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Existe la idea de que los artistas somos libres y eso significa que podemos hacer lo que queramos. Y es muy importante comprometerse con esta idea, como seres humanos que somos, de que somos libres de hacer lo que queramos. Entonces, la verdadera pregunta es: ¿qué queremos hacer? Y a medida que uno se conoce a sí mismo, descubre que hay cosas que vuelven una y otra vez y que uno quiere hacer.

  Chris Martin

  Real, Mean, Artist

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• La verdadera cuestión es si debemos fiarnos de la gente a la que no le gusta el queso.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Real, People, Cheese

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Jun 15, 2013

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• The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Wall

  James Davison Hunter (1992). “Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America”, p.262, Basic Books

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• Las verdaderas preguntas se niegan a ser aplacadas. Son las preguntas formuladas con más frecuencia y respondidas de forma más inadecuada, las que revelan su verdadera naturaleza lentamente, a regañadientes, la mayoría de las veces en contra de tu voluntad.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Questions Asked, Refuse

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

  Bryant H. McGill

  Real, Creating, Want

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• ¿He ofrecido paz hoy? ¿He hecho sonreír a alguien? ¿Dije palabras de sanación? ¿He dejado ir mi ira y mi resentimiento? ¿He perdonado? ¿He amado? Éstas son las verdaderas preguntas. Debo confiar en que el poquito de amor que siembro ahora dará muchos frutos, aquí en este mundo y en la vida venidera.

  Henri Nouwen

  Dejar ir, Real, Curación

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• The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Real, Pensamiento, Orden

  Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

  Art Buchwald

  Real, Ideas, Firsts

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• En las fiestas de la adolescencia siempre estaba vagando por el jardín, sentado en un banco en la oscuridad... mirando las constelaciones y reflexionando sobre todas esas grandes preguntas acerca de la existencia de Dios y la naturaleza del mal y el misterio de la muerte, preguntas que parecían más importantes que cualquier otra cosa en el mundo hasta que pasaban unos años y algunas preguntas reales se habían volcado en tu regazo, como la forma de ganarse la vida, y por qué la gente se enamoraba y se desenamoraba, y cuánto tiempo se podía seguir fumando y luego dejarlo sin tener cáncer de pulmón.

  Mark Haddon

  Love, Teenage, Giving Up

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• "Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How you acted." "Not all of it," I say, tightly holding onto my flowers. "Then how much? No, forget that. I guess the real question is what's going to be left when we get home?" he says. "I don't know. The closer we get to District Twelve, the more confused I get," I say. He waits, for further explanation, but none's forthcoming. "Well, let me know when you work it out," he says, and the pain in his voice is palpable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Confused, Real

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• La verdadera cuestión es cuánto sufrimiento hemos causado a nuestras mujeres al convertir los pañuelos en símbolos y utilizarlas como peones en un juego político.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Real, Games, Political

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Real, Doe, Answers

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.67, Oxford University Press

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• La verdadera pregunta es, ¿puedes amar a mi verdadero yo? No a la persona perfecta que quieres que sea, no a esa imagen que tenías de mí, sino a quien soy en realidad.

  Christine Feehan

  Real, Perfect, Want

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.510, Penguin

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• Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Pain, Real, Thinking

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• La verdadera cuestión no es si hay vida después de la muerte. La verdadera cuestión es si se está vivo antes de la muerte.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Real, Alive

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• But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

  Gayle Forman

  Life, Real, What If

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 14, 2016

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• You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were shamble-men in the woods, would you believe them?" My father shook his head. "What if two people told you?" Another shake. Ben leaned forward on his stump. "What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating-" "Of course I wouldn't believe them," my father said, irritated. "It's ridiculous." "Of course it is," Ben agreed, raising a finger. "But the real question is this: Would you go into the woods?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Father, Real, Believe

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