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• If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Intelligent

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• Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

  George H. W. Bush

  Feels

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• Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.

  Carl Jung

  Kindness, People, Needs

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• If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Wish, Want

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• The doctor says to the patient, "Take your clothes off and stick your tongue out the window". "What will that do" asks the patient. The doctor says "I'm mad at my neighbor!".

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Clothes

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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 want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Hero, Character, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

  William Shakespeare

  Disease, Temperance, Appliances

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII”, p.276

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• The moment we find the reason behind an emotion … the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.

  Gloria Steinem

  Memories, Wall, Answers

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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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• One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.

  Jay Leno

  Should Have, Fake, Hussein

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• There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

  John Dryden

  Asking, Proud, Pay

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3874, Delphi Classics

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• Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

  Pablo Neruda

  Book

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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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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• What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, People, Looks

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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• I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Soul

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

  Ansel Adams

  Meaningful, Feelings, Growing

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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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• Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

  Teresa of Avila

  Self Control, Matter, Speak

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• Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

  Wendell Phillips

  Games, Play, Common Sense

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• You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

  Mooji

  Life Is, Spontaneity, Living My Life

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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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• Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Advice, Survivor

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• The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do to it it is still worth $50. We as human beings never lose our value either despite feeling down, flat or worthless at times.

  John C. Maxwell

  Feeling Down, Feelings, Want

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• It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

  Prince Philip

  Pertinent Questions, Looks, Answers

  Speech at the World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, in 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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