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• The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.

  Antonin Artaud

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• What questions do I want my audience to ask?

  Chip Heath

  Want, Audience

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.88, Random House

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• Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

  Pope Francis

  Things In Life, People, Matter

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, Hard Work, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.692, Macmillan

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• But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything

  Francis Chan

  Christian, People, Heaven

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.61, David C Cook

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• You can ask my wife about my stamina.

  Steve Smith, Sr.

  Wife, My Wife, Stamina

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• For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

  Eli Broad

  Successful, What Matters, The End Of The Day

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• It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Christian, Believe, Important

  Lesslie Newbigin (1995). “Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship”, p.87, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

  Criss Jami

  Looks, Taught, Philosopher

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.84, Criss Jami

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• Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

  Joanne Harris

  Freak, Fit, Standing Out

  Joanne Harris (2009). “The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.

  Anil Dash

  Writing, Trust Me, Don't Trust

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• People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have.

  Renzo Gracie

  Hate, People, Opponents

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• If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Two, Soul, Doe

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• I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.

  Billy Eichner

  Important, Would Be, World

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• I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.

  Kevin P. Ryan

  People, Office, Feelings

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• Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.

  Richard Layard, Baron Layard

  Giving, Research, Answers

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• Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

  Tom Spanbauer

  Ends, Knows

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.497, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.

  Chris Hardwick

  Long, Answers, Care

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• I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

  Janet Jackson

  Kids, Parent, House

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• Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Broken, Triumph

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Jobs, Book

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• You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

  David Suzuki

  Priorities, Principles, Would Be

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• Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

  Chuck Robb

  Sandwiches, Ham, Injustice

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• As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.

  David Lauren

  Dad, Fun, Kids

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