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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Heaven, Causes

  John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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• You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

  Stephen Leacock

  Jail, Childhood, Village

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lying, Men, People

  "Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 81, 1957.

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• Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

  Francis Collins

  Prayer, Opportunity, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I felt like I wasn't doing justice to either side of my life. It wasn't pronounced. Publicity is an awkward thing to do. It is awkward to call people up all the time and ask them for things on a very basic level.

  Sloane Crosley

  People, Justice, Awkward

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe.

  Morgan Freeman

  Home, Wife, Boss

  "Morgan Freeman Talks Lucky Number Slevin". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 31, 2006.

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• People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.

  Emile Hirsch

  Careers, People, Choices

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Ideas, Black

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.

  Luc Tuymans

  Emotional, People, Elements

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• The questions to ask are what is moral, what is ethical, what is in line with your belief system, and what seems to make the most sense and cause the least amount of harm? Eat the foods that are in line with your sincere answers.

  Robert Cheeke

  Lines, Causes, Answers

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.69, Book Publishing Company

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• If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

  Ariel Gore

  Hurt, People, Worry

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• Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

  Athol Fugard

  White, Done, Realization

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• There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

  Madsen Pirie

  Trying, Want, Poverty

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• I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'

  Rocky Bridges

  Littles, Firsts, Little League

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• The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Problem, Ability

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• When I ask, “How are you?” that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul.

  Omid Safi

  Heart, Soul, Asking

  "We Are No Longer Fine, We’re Busy Blind" by Dana O’Dell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2015.

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• Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Rights, Views

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, May 14, 1850.

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