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• The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

  Ann Wigmore

  Keys, Enthusiasm, Way

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• To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Our World, Self, Understanding

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• I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.

  Martha Bolton

  Fun, Husband, World

  Martha Bolton (2000). “I Love You-- Still: To Keep the Love, Ya Gotta Laugh”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Art Is, Happens

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• One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.

  Robert Genn

  Interesting, Elements, Composition

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• No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Trying, Looks

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• The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Prayer, Heart, Simple

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.185

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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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• He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Practice, Reputation, Virtue

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• Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fighting, Knowing, Giving

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• And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.

  Saint Patrick

  Faith, Inspiration, Boys

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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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• They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.

  David Letterman

  Country, Native American, Numbers

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• Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

  Buddy Guy

  Guitar, Perfect, Car

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• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Book, Thinking

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, May, Ask Me

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• I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed, was put into their hearts by the Almighty, who sits enthroned in the midst of the heavens; although unknown to them, it was dictated by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, it is as good as I could ask for.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• Some of you may ask, ?Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God has enjoined upon the people, that he will excuse them from obeying?' Not one, no matter how trifling or small in our own estimation. No matter if we esteem them non-essential, or least or last of all the commandments of the house of God, we are under obligation to observe them.

  Brigham Young

  People, House, May

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• I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Today, Eating

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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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• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Data, Answers

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• No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

  Maria Mitchell

  Wisdom, Should

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

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• I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, New York, Believe

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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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• Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so often they squander on trifles? If this has happened to you, do not forget that you are obliged to pay back to the person concerned all that you gave to the poor without the knowledge or consent of your employers. Then again, there is the one who has been entrusted by his employer with the supervision of the staff, or of workmen, who gives out wine and all sorts of other things to them if they ask him.

  John Vianney

  Wine, Order, People

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