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• If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.

  Mu Xin

  Far Away, China, Ask Me

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• Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Self Esteem, Thinking

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “The True Joy of Positive Living: An Autobiography”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Revenge, Patriotic, Past

  Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.

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• If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.

  Thomas of Villanova

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

  Golda Meir

  Country, Israel, Promise

  Le Monde, October 15, 1971.

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• Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

  Walter Cronkite

  War, Law, World Government

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, What If

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• President Obama says he wants to put an end to the policy, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' Yeah, in the military. This is not to be confused with George Bush's policy, 'Don't Know, Don't Care.' That's a whole different deal.

  David Letterman

  Confused, Military, President

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• In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Summer, Loneliness, Men

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• I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

  Pitbull

  Country, Usa, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You may ask me for anything you like except time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, May, Ask Me

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• Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

  Steve Jobs

  Dream, Phones, People

  "22 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said 1 Thing Separates People Who Achieve From Those Who Only Dream". www.inc.com.

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• If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.

  Charles Fort

  Light, Hymns, Special

  Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.48, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The sun is shining and the bird are singing what more could you ask for in a day!

  Heather Mills

  Love, Shining, Bird

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• Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Attitude, People

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

  Frank Knox

  War, Fighting, Two

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• I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life.

  Sark

  Quality, Shows, Ifs

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• For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

  Maria Mitchell

  Women, Overcoming, Path

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• People sometimes ask me if I do not feel lonely on holidays. How can I feel lonely when I live in the constant awareness of God's presence? I love and I enjoy being with people, but when I am alone I enjoy being alone with God.

  Peace Pilgrim

  God, Lonely, Holiday

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.48, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Sacrifice, Law

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• Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Knowledge, Toppings

  'Shakespeare' (1849)

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• When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright.

  Brigham Young

  Morning, Prayer, Children

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• If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Creativity, Awe And Wonder

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans pay for it. Everybody asks me, "Will, how long is this going to go on, spending all this money and everything going like this?" I says, "Well, it will go on just as long as the Republicans has got any money. That's all I know about it."

  Will Rogers

  Lunch, Long, Usual

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