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R.J. Palacio

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers
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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn&#...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN
Jack, sometimes you don't have to be mean to hurt someone.
R.J. PALACIO
AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPT
Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the wor...
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It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
R.J. PALACIO
Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams
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Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than neede...
R.J. PALACIO
MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:

WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
RIGHT OR BEING K...
R.J. PALACIO
Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?"
"I don't know. I don't think so."
...
R.J. PALACIO
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, an...
R.J. PALACIO
My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.
R.J. PALACIO
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to hon...
R.J. PALACIO
I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around...
R.J. PALACIO
no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. ...
R.J. PALACIO
If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to...
R.J. PALACIO
Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.
R.J. PALACIO
...we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of a...
R.J. PALACIO
I think we're too young to be dating. I mean I don't see what the rush is." Summer says.
"Yeah...
R.J. PALACIO
Sometimes it's good to start over
R.J. PALACIO
But the best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now ...
R.J. PALACIO
It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched ...
R.J. PALACIO
Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sent...
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AMOS CONTI'S PRECEPT
Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.
R.J. PALACIO
That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
R.J. PALACIO
the universe takes care of all its birds.
R.J. PALACIO
Learning who you are is what you're here to do.
R.J. PALACIO
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness...
R.J. PALACIO
It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, w...
R.J. PALACIO
...your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of stone.
R.J. PALACIO
Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
R.J. PALACIO
Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.
R.J. PALACIO
I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand...
R.J. PALACIO
When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. - Dr Wayne W. Dyer
R.J. PALACIO
The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run ...
R.J. PALACIO
Now that I look back, I don't know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes...
R.J. PALACIO
No, no, it's not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and ...
R.J. PALACIO
One mistake does not define you.
R.J. PALACIO
Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed....
R.J. PALACIO
Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.
AMIT KALANTRI
Raising right question is awakening; getting its answer is stimulating; But, nothing better than the...
ANUJ SOMANY
The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.
EOIN COLFER
There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are ...
AMANDA MOSHER
Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own ques...
CHRISTOPHER DUTTON
My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, y...
JAVIER BARDEM
Palacio, Williams and Ostertag all hurt us in overtime. Those aren't the guys you'd expect it from.
FLIP SAUNDERS
But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins an...
NEIL POSTMAN
Do not let the day end without you asking yourself one great question. So many things do question ou...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are...
RICHARD BACH
Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive g...
JAMES THURBER
It is better to know defeat than to know nothing at all.
LIAM D'SOUZA
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
PROVERB
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions ...
GEORGE WALD
Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.
PARUL WADHWA
But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.
DAISY GOODWIN
Sometimes the answers are in the question!
DEYTH BANGER
I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've b...
TROMBONE SHORTY
I make work not to give answers but to question things.
FLORENTIJN HOFMAN
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley ...
JOHN SCALZI
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JESEPH JOUBERT
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
I think by the middle of the week, she had better have some good answers.
IAN GIBSON
Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Time is always moving and as it moves day night, night day the motion of time is clear, to many peop...
GARY F EVANS...
The events that happen in our lives make us who we are ,we can either give in to them and let them w...
GARY F EVANS...
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
BILL JAMES
And to answer the question that people have about this conspiracy theory that he has a pack in his b...
BILL MAHER
It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.
LEMONY SNICKET
We know we need to correct some mistakes and get better than we were tonight.
JOEY GALLOWAY
Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES
Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
BILL NYE
My usual instruction to students when they are preparing to write their examinations is "think befor...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.
CHARLIE FINK
It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the s...
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two -- or more -- answers to the...
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on t...
OLIVER BUTTERWORTH
We all ready know all the answers, we just can't find them.
JIM GENOVESE
Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.
COLLEEN HOOVER
We needed to do a better job physically in the paint and not just from a couple guys, the whole grou...
DAVID GIBB
There are as many answers to that question as people you ask it to.
BLAIR WESTLAKE
You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.
HERBERT PROCHNOW
We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
JOHN RANDOLPH
Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than qu...
ANTONIA MICHAELIS
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being wil...
PAUL TILLICH
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclin...
SUGATA MITRA
You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and t...
MELINA MARCHETTA
She answers any question you ask. Not everybody is like that.
TRAVIS WOLFE
Everyone has been telling these great James Taylor stories, and nothing for me says it better than t...
CAROLE KING
If you think you know all the answers well then you forgot to answer all the questions.
SAL PALLADINO
Only question one should ask is "am I better than yesterday?"
ELECTROJIT
It's structured, but it's very hands-on. I question the kids a whole lot, rather than just tell them...
AMY PRICE
I know the course just a little bit better than some of the other guys.
OMAR URESTI
The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.
BARBARA DELINSKY

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She looked down at the gun, harmless in its quiet. Asleep.
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You don't need meat at every meal," Riley offered, forking another bite of salad into his mouth and ...
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If there’s one thing you learn from me, after hearing about just under one year of my life can it ...
R.J. SEELEY
Hopeful people are more easily controlled, but the volume must be managed. Too much hope leaves a pe...
R.J. LAWRENCE
I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of...
R.J. ANDERSON
He looked like a thing broken loose from a bedtime story, something unreal ... The giant watched her...
R.J. LAWRENCE
She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.
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At last, the clock settled in the right place.
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They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.
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She sat at the little table, her expression like that of a child digesting failed plans.
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The boy raised the can to his nose and smelled, his lips wrinkling back as if he'd caught the busine...
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They drove out of the driveway and onto the road, venturing forth into the horizon, spacious and emp...
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It's bad luck not to believe in luck.
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I looked up, into the muddy hazel eyes of the nicest man I would ever learn to hate.
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He flipped over and positioned himself atop her, his head congested with rude thoughts.
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It’s this or nothing at all.
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You want my advice? Well, here it is. Don't take no advice and don't give none neither.
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I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.
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Never apologize for correct actions.
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A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.
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The door closed and darkness claimed the room.
R.J. LAWRENCE
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Many of our churches have become content with creating well-behaved constituents instead of forgiven...
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You broke her heart in person—you fix it in person!
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Solaris a blaze of freedom raging.
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