Asking Quotes - Page 27

• Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Example

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Numbers, Answers

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.140

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• Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Be Careful, Careful, Turns

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• How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.

  Paul Nurse

  Jobs, School, Asking Questions

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• The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.

  Benjamin Graham

  Heart, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Lasts, Deals

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 2, 2010.

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• After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

  Babe Ruth

  Advice, Answers, Made

  "Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball". Book by Babe Ruth, Chapter XIV, p. 199, 1928.

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• The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we’ll all die.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  Asking For Help, Oil, People

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• It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, you'll feel even worse. - WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?

  Liz Tuccillo

  People, Gathering, Answers

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• Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.

  David Bowick

  Girl, Fall, Thinking

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• I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.

  Sam Brownback

  Believe, Government, Doe

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• It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

  Barack Obama

  Numbers, Easy, Difficult

  "Obama Warns Cantor As Debt Talks Stall: ‘Don’t Call My Bluff’" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2011.

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• In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Grateful, Years

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• Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have the right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?" Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel--and certainly our anger is no exception.

  Harriet Lerner

  Meaningful, Anger, Glasses

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 23, 2015

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• I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

  Avril Lavigne

  People, Want, Loser

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• A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

  Anthony de Mello

  Father, Heart, Relative Value

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.151, Image

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• You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Men, What Is Love, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• You can see it on the Internet now. New society demands that people share their knowledge. It's asking multimillionaires to share their money and creative people to share their creativity. Whoever doesn't share their wealth, be it knowledge, money, or creativity, will be dead.

  Ferran Adria

  Creativity, People, Creative

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

  Cathie Pelletier

  Giving, Advice, Backyards

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• You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Over You, Dies, Cease

  Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.272, Penguin

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• Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.

  Arnold Wesker

  Country, Book, Asking Questions

  Arnold Wesker (2013). “Roots”, p.78, A&C Black

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• That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

  Alan Bennett

  Men, Water, Sahara

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Thinking, Political

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• My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

  Hunter Tylo

  Children, Littles, More Time

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• Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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