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• Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mistake, Believe, Government

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• Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spiritual, Goal, Purpose

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• All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.

  Lloyd John Ogilvie

  Prayer, Needs

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• Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

  Saint Augustine

  Answers, Findings

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• I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Writing, Character, Order

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• If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid value judgment is whether you're going to last, and that tells you that you are, for a bit at least.

  Martin Amis

  Strong, Unanswered Questions, Lasts

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• You have to believe in the arthouse, if you will - the emotion, the conflict, the who am I, which will always be an unanswered question. If you do it right, you have a smaller drama, and a great movie.

  Avi Arad

  Drama, Believe, Unanswered Questions

  Fuente: www.denofgeek.com

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• One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

  Walter Kasper

  Reality, Islam, Democracy

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.

  Behdad Sami

  Ignored, Excuse, Made

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• Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  People, Demand, Dishes

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• Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

  Steve Allen

  Laughter, Eye, Arms

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

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• Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

  Bill Johnson

  Prayer, Want, Answered Prayers

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• Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information

  Seth Klarman

  Safety, Perfect, Decision

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• Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Character, Promise

  Rick Warren (2004). "¿Para qué demonios estoy aquí?".

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• Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

  Lisa Unger

  Philosophy, Giving, Forever

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.695, Crown

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• Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Father, Taught

  "Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character".

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• You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

  David Levithan

  Phones, Long, Waiting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.181, Macmillan

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• Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

  Nora Roberts

  Regret, Guilt, Unanswered Questions

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• There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Eye, Pockets

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• Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
  Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
  To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
  Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

  George Croly

  Patience, Art, Prayer

  George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

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• If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.

  Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  Business, Data, Organization

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• When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Prayer, Thinking

  Oswald Chambers (1997). "La obra de Dios: Y, Él Me Glorificará", Discovery House Pub

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• Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.

  Noah Porter

  Nature, Science, History

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• La mayor tragedia de la vida no es la oración no respondida, sino la oración no ofrecida.

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is

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• He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

  Mitch Albom

  Prayer, Pain, Thinking

  Mitch Albom (2009). "Ten un poco de fe: A True Story", Hyperion

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