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• Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

  Andrew Vachss

  Sheep, Ifs

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “False Allegations”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• We offer you the landscape of your birth --
  Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame.
  We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth
  For killing what we cannot even name.

  Dana Gioia

  Names, Earth, Landscape

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.50, Macmillan

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• Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mistake, Struggle, Focus

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.39, Macmillan

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• God asks that we give thanks to Him for whatever blessings we receive from Him. It is easy for us to become mechanical in our prayers of gratitude, often repeating the same words but without the intent to give our thanks as a gift of the heart to God.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

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• I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

  Charles Yu

  People, Ask Me

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.131, Knopf

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• The easiest way to buy silver was to take a paper dollar to the bank and ask for change. So much coinage was disappearing from circulation that the government was forced to remove silver from U.S. coinage beginning in 1965.

  Michael Maloney

  Government, Dollars, Paper

  Michael Maloney (2015). “Guide To Investing in Gold & Silver: Protect Your Financial Future”, p.138, RDA Press, LLC

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• When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or fishing?' And she says, “Don't forget your waders.'

  Robert Ruark

  Morning, Sex, Fishing

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• People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

  William Maxwell

  Humility, People, Serious

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• When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Giving, Answers, Honestly

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• I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  John Galt

  Men, Fans, Phrases

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• Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

  Criss Jami

  Enemy

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

  Criss Jami

  Ugly, Blind, Beauty On The Inside

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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• Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.

  Criss Jami

  Crazy, People, Trying

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?'

  Criss Jami

  Philosophy, Believe, Years

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.78, Criss Jami

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• When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

  Nicolas Roeg

  Book, Fighting, Men

  "Q&A with Puffball director Nicolas Roeg". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2008.

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• Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Powerful, Husband, Divorce

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• I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

  Boman Irani

  Titles, Roles, Stories

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• The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, People, Age

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.102, Vintage

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• It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

  Charles de Lint

  Journey, Important, Answers

  "Dreams Underfoot". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Littles, Gods Will

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.

  Martine Batchelor

  Practice, Mind, Important

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• To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

  George H. W. Bush

  Business, Men, Temptation

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• Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

  Winston Churchill

  Long, May, Mercy

  "War of the Unknown Warriors", BBC Broadcast, London, winstonchurchill.org. July 14, 1940.

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• If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Want, Awareness

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well - well - well, I, - I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am?

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Men, People

  Dwight L Moody (1995). “Heaven”, p.76, Moody Publishers

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