Questions That Make You Think ...
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There are moments in life, when you are faced with very simple questions that make you think. While it appears that the answer should be foolishly simple...you find yourself staring at the question, perplexed beyond belief. The answer is not immediately apparent. Your mind searches for the simple solution to a simple question...yet there's none to be found. As you ponder the complexities within the innocent-looking question, it dawns on you. Sometimes, things that may appear simple, aren't quite as straightforward as people may like to believe.
A Few Brain-Numbing Questions If you try to fail, and then succeed, which have you done? Why is there an expiration date on sour cream? If most car accidents occur within five miles of home, why doesn't everyone just move 10 miles away? If anything is possible, is it possible that nothing is possible? Why do you park on a driveway but drive on a parkway? How does Hawaii have an interstate? How are packages on a ship called "cargo" when packages on a car are called "shipments"? If a convenient store is open 24 hours a day seven days a week then why are there locks on the doors?
What's the miracle cost?
Tess went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured all the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall's Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door. She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention but he was too intently talking to another man to be bothered by an eight year old at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good. Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it! "And what do you want?" the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice. "I'm talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven't seen in ages," he said without waiting for a reply to his question. "Well, I want to talk to you about my brother," Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. "He's really, really sick ... and I want to buy a miracle." "I beg your pardon?" said the pharmacist. "His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?" "We don't sell miracles here, little girl. I'm sorry but I can't help you." the pharmacist said, softening a little. "Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough, I will get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs." The pharmacist's brother was a well dressed man. He stooped down and asked the little girl, "What kind of a miracle does you brother need?" "I don't know," Tess replied with her eyes welling up. "I just know he's really sick and Mommy says he needs a operation. But my Daddy can't pay for it, so I want to use my money. "How much do you have?" asked the man from Chicago. "One dollar and eleven cents," Tess answered barely audibly. "And it's all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to." "Well, what a coincidence," smiled the man. "A dollar and eleven cents -- the exact price of a miracle for little brothers." He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her and said "Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of miracle you need." That well dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed without charge and it wasn't long until Andrew was home again and doing well. Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place. "That surgery," her mom whispered. "was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost?" Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost... one dollar and eleven cents... plus the faith of a little child. Author Unknown
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Quotes About Asking Questions Quotes ‘To ask the hard question is simple.’ — W. H.Auden ‘Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.’ — Bernard Mannes Baruch ‘The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.’ — Edmund Burke ‘To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.’ — Albert Einstein ‘Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.’ — Ralph Gerard ‘The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.’ — Ursula Le Guin ‘You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.’ — Mahfouz Naguib ‘There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.’ — George Polyá ‘Man’s "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.’ — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ‘No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.’ — George Bernard Shaw ‘There are no foolish questions, and no man has become a fool until he stops asking questions.’ — Charles P. Steinmetz
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