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"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."

Truth, Islam, Identity, Intellectuals

"We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality."

Nature, Society, Forget, Reality

"People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs."

People, Concern, First, Meeting

"If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms."

People, Expression, Identity, Want

"As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being."

Awareness, Being, Consciousness, Identity

"In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner."

People, Attention, Name

"We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems."

Problems,

"Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere."

Energy,

"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."

Answers, Order, Questions

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"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Answers, Problems

"I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens."

Andre Agassi, American Athlete

Answers, Day, Fighting, Question

"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."

Paul Allen, American Businessman

Answers, May, Question, Universe

"Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

Answers, Questions

"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Answers, Literature, Questions

"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

Answers, Colors, Light, Questions

"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."

Lester Bangs, American Critic

Answers,

"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."

Jim Barksdale, American Businessman

Answers, Past

"As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee."

Bernard Barton, American Poet

Answers, Questions, Talk

"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

Allan Bloom, American Philosopher

Answers, Consideration