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• On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gone, Littles, Repent

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Fighting, Blessing

  Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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• The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Jesus, Years, Next

  Pierre Trudeau's reply to a high school student's question about what happened to Trudeau's promises of a "Just Society" in Regina, Saskatchewan, September 1972.

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• Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Promise, Ask Me, Knows

  1894 Catherine to Raina. Arms and the Man, act 1.

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• Ask me who I don't dress!

  Coco Chanel

  Dresses, Ask Me

  "Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light‎". Book by David Downie, p. 93, 2005.

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• I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

  William John Locke

  Men, Hands, Soul

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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• Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Atheist, Wisconsin, Realizing

  "Fox's O'Reilly: 'Do The Atheists In Wisconsin Realize They're Going To Hell?'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.mediamatters.org. November 13, 2012.

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• But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Merit, Retarded

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 328, 1977.

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• I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

  Mario Balotelli

  Thinking, Winning, Giving

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• When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we all want, the way we understand happiness.

  Ruben Papian

  Heaven, Lasts, Comfort

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.9

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• How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.

  Ruben Papian

  Self, Recipes, Pounds

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.26

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• A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.

  Matthew Sharpe

  Glasses

  Matthew Sharpe (2007). “Jamestown: A Novel”, p.71, Soft Skull Press

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• If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Selfish, Giving, Ifs

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life”, p.203, Broadway Books

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• It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Is, Giving, Bases

  "Born For Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1994.

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• A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your partner or friend is somehow magically psychic when it comes to you -\-\ so much so that he or she should unfailingly intuit exactly what you need, even if you don't ask for it.
  This fantasy may seem romantic, but it can undermine the most promising alliances.
  To counteract any tendencies you might have to indulge in the assumption of clairvoyance, practice stating your desires aloud.

  Rob Brezsny

  Intimate Relationships, Psychics, Practice

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• Ask questions then talk over answers, shout loudly you love everyone, try and hug people, confide in them that you are a sheep, offer them the last grass in your pockets.
  Then watch with a smile as they pretend you aren't there, and whisper you must be crazy, because you want to make friends.

  Craig Stone

  Crazy, Sheep, People

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• Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

  Bill Vaughan

  Heaven, Way, Hardest

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• The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.

  Richard Armour

  Couple, Hair, Elderly

  Richard Willard Armour, “Too Have And Too Old”

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• Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Television, Ends

  Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”

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• Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sun, Tasks, Each Day

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.9

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• In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Loyalty, World, Way

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Desire, Records, Stones

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, my head's full of questions My temp'rature's risin' fast Well, I'm lookin' for some answers But I don't know who to ask

  Ronald Reagan

  Answers, Wells, Knows

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• Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Thinking, Differences

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fun, New Beginnings, Frustration

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.668, Best Books on

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