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... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

… the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.
– Julius Lester

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  1. He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust–a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything. – Andr Gide
  2. Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either. – Julius Lester
  3. He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief’s tears on your face. – Julius Lester
  4. Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple. – Julius Lester
  5. The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them. – Julius Lester
  6. The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
  7. when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  8. Ask the question, receive the answer; don’t ask the question, don’t receive the answer. – DR Silva
  9. You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs – Chris Cleave
  10. Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. – James D Carswell
  11. I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
  12. someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?and i said(object): i give up..!!! – paradox
  13. Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul. – DH Lawrence
  14. Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why? – Peter Wilkes
  15. People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests – Rasheed Ogunlaru
  16. The question -œwho am I- is the first question that every person should ask himself – Sunday Adelaja
  17. Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. – Mark Batterson
  18. You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it. – Joseph Campbell
  19. Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover. – Kamand Kojouri
  20. Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. – Yann Martel
  21. The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. – James Joyce
  22. Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander. – Eoin Colfer
  23. A survey was done on people who LIE, but the results were unreLIEable – Joseph Julius Bonkowski Jr
  24. An imagined evil can be worse than the real thing. – Joseph Julius Bonkowski Jr
  25. As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can – Gaius Julius Caesar
  26. I am the only one who can save me from myself. – Joseph Julius Bonkowski Jr
  27. There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…- -• William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar – Lisa M Collins
  28. Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude. – Julius Ceasar
  29. My love life couldn’t be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls’ boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it. – Flynn Meaney
  30. Be careful of your Golden GlitterIt may shine upon your Baby Sitter – Frank Julius
  31. Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. – Lester B Pearson
  32. You should never make fun of something that a person can’t change about themselves. – Phil Lester
  33. If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re -˜not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun. – C N Lester
  34. Trying to take away someone’s language is usually the first step in trying to change them. – C N Lester
  35. Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she’s not here. – Joan Steinau Lester
  36. You can’t teach kindness with a whip, Janus. – Chris Lester
  37. For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror. – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  38. Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace. – Lester B Pearson
  39. I’m just Phil from Rossendale. And now people are screaming for me ’cause I make YouTube videos – it’s just crazy! – Phil Lester
  40. Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn’t got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement. – Maria Waters

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