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• The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

  John Galsworthy

  Book, Men, Squares

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.1149, e-artnow

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• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Money, Fear, War

  "The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 2014.

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• Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.

  Taner Edis

  Lying, Religion, Spacetime

  Taner Edis (2002). “The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science”, Pyr Books

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• The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'

  John Paul Caponigro

  Important, Way, Photographer

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• The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Focus, Intuition, Golden

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• The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.

  Kanye West

  People, Ought, Autographs

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• When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.

  Nick Vujicic

  Suicide, Giving Up, Years

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• Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

  Simon Sinek

  Intelligent, Thinking, Opposites

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• I think you might be considered a terrorist for asking the question! It can be so broadly defined now. And the thing is, you’re not privy to those decisions. Anyone who expresses any opinion can be considered a terrorist.

  Tom Morello

  Thinking, Decision, Might

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd,
  The child is born by many a pang endear'd
  And now the mother's ear has caught his cry;
  O grant the cherub to her asking eye!
  He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd
  He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.

  Samuel Rogers

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

  Theodore Parker

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery”, p.179

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• If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

  Margaret Millar

  Accidents, Ifs

  Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.64, Soho Press

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• What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Needs, Bigs

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

  Pauline Kael

  Business, Thinking, Differences

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• Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Hate, Men, World

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• Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all, loved and loving and asking very little from the outer world, because they have more than enough within. They are classed as the dreamers, but they are really seers. They do not ask much and they do not need much beyond a reverent guardianship and to be let alone and allowed to grow; they will find this way for they are 'taught of God.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Children, Eye, Air

  Janet Erskine Stuart (2012). “The Education of Catholic Girls”, p.49, tredition

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• People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Book, People

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• A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Secret, Secrecy, Swearing

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Stress, Men, Giving

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• I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

  Leon Bloy

  Prayer, Fire, Doors

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• When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  America, People

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• Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

  Simon Hoggart

  Dream, Blood, Liberty

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

  Lucille Clifton

  Different, Bigger, Schemes

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• When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

  Paula Fox

  People, Dumb, Earth

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• You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.

  Bill W.

  Simplicity, Enlightenment, Mystery

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