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Pertinent Quotes

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.28, Vintage

Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.17, Princeton University Press

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

Speech at the World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, in 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.