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• Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

  Katherine Paterson

  Real, Character, Kids

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• Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

  Katherine Paterson

  Reading, Imagination, Creative

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• When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.

  Jim Rohn

  Asking Questions, People, Answers

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• If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Wise, Book, Agony

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

  Terrence Malick

  Jobs, Scripts, Want

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• The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways

  Russell Barkley

  Love, Children, Kids

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• Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

  Helen Keller

  Real, Mean, Men

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.68, Matthew Gordon

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• I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

  Dwyane Wade

  Summer, Kids, Parent

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• The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.

  Antonin Artaud

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• People ask me so many questions.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Ask Me

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• What questions do I want my audience to ask?

  Chip Heath

  Want, Audience

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.88, Random House

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• Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

  Pope Francis

  Things In Life, People, Matter

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Answers, Should

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• I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.

  Banksy

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, Hard Work, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.692, Macmillan

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• But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything

  Francis Chan

  Christian, People, Heaven

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.61, David C Cook

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• The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

  Pope Paul VI

  Brother, Blessed, Cutting

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• You can ask my wife about my stamina.

  Steve Smith, Sr.

  Wife, My Wife, Stamina

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• For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

  Eli Broad

  Successful, What Matters, The End Of The Day

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• Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?

  Janet Yellen

  Cutting, Trying, Body

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• I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Mean, Trying

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• You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

  Michael Bassey

  Love You, Favors, Knows

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• It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Christian, Believe, Important

  Lesslie Newbigin (1995). “Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship”, p.87, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Mean, Abundance, Given

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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