#question

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#born #cried #crying #die #else

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes. ↗

— John Zorn

#answers #ask #becomes #began #environment

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#along #class #drudge #ever #genius

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?' ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#know #people #question #tell #themselves

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#approached #does #i #mean #means

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#anything #could #else #facebook #friends

What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations. ↗

— James Chanos

#bailed #banks #bonds #bubbles #china

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#being #chair #communists #courtroom #full

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better. ↗

— Paula Cole

#answers #better #feel #frustrated #i