“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
“Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.”
— Thomas Pynchon, book Gravity's Rainbow
Variant: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
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