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• How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

  Charles de Lint

  Children, People, House

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Humble, Advice

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• If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Perception, Looks, World

  Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Favors, Flattery, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?

  Brian Tracy

  Two, Difficulty

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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• In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

  Beryl Markham

  People, Giving, Balance

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition, ask for their stories about survival. They've figured out how to turn disappointments into opportunities.

  Harvey Mackay

  Disappointment, Business, War

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• When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

  Leonard Cohen

  Lying, Rain, Complaining

  Song: Waiting For The Miracle, Album: The Future, 1992

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• Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Giving, Desire

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• All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.

  Dogen

  Lying, Spring, Eye

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• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer.

  Ingmar Bergman

  People, Giving, Answers

  Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

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• All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.

  Paul Klee

  Rain, Rooms, Wells

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.378, Univ of California Press

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