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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

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

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

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.


Christopher Gist


#because #began #business #come #did

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.


Sterling Hayden


#caucus #crew #democracy #go #inquire

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.


Frances Wright


#believe #examine #faith #grounds #i

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.


Franz Boas


#brought #causes #differentiation #establishment #events

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






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