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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.


Thornton Wilder


#cream #enjoy #ice #ice cream #inquire

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.


Leon Trotsky


#application #apply #brakes #car #democratic

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.


Remy de Gourmont


#already #discover #doing #good #good time

Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.


Simon Greenleaf


#competent #consider #credibility #establishing #evangelists

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.


Robert Grosseteste


#acres #corn #count #each #how

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.


David Guterson


#completely #complex #entire #entire world #everybody

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?


Lord Byron


#anxious #atom #came #dead #go

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.


Jim Lehrer


#any #avenues #debate #different #different ways

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.


Arthur Keith


#authority #be true #because #believed #central

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.


Ferdinand Christian Baur


#activity #circumstances #general #his #ideas






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