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• The moment we find the reason behind an emotion … the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.

  Gloria Steinem

  Memories, Wall, Answers

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• Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Tribes, Vote, Patriot

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”

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• in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

  Arthur Koestler

  Pertinent Questions, Society, Lasts

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• One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.

  Jay Leno

  Should Have, Fake, Hussein

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• There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

  John Dryden

  Asking, Proud, Pay

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3874, Delphi Classics

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• Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

  Charles Kingsley

  Hymns, Long, Singing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 456, 1895.

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• A great ship asks deep water.

  George Herbert

  Greatness, Deep Water, Ships

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Night, Answers

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• A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

  William Stafford

  Writing, Mind, Pieces

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• Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

  Pablo Neruda

  Book

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

  Grace Hopper

  Technology, Computer, Forget

  Quoted in the OCLC Newsletter, no.167, Mar/ Apr 1987.

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• Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Teacher, Sick, Long

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• What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, People, Looks

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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• I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Soul

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Matter, Painting

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• When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

  Richard Mitchell

  Society, Events, Wonder

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• Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

  Ansel Adams

  Meaningful, Feelings, Growing

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• I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

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• Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

  Wendell Berry

  Peace, Islam, Christianity

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• Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

  Teresa of Avila

  Self Control, Matter, Speak

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• Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

  Wendell Phillips

  Games, Play, Common Sense

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• God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

  Marianne Williamson

  Peace, People, Energy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.18, Random House

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• Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Peace, Mind, Everyday

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.68, Celestial Arts

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• Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

  Charles Churchill

  Criticism, Reason, Disputes

  Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.66

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• You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

  Mooji

  Life Is, Spontaneity, Living My Life

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