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• King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

  Plutarch

  Kings, Enemy, Said

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 58 Agis. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

  Frank Zappa

  Race, Tin Cans, Guy

  Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969.

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• When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you

  Johnny Mercer

  Angel, Remember You, Remembers You

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• The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

  Saul Alinsky

  Heart, Space, Breathing

  "Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky (p. 19), 1971.

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• A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.

  Edward Coke

  Thinking, Wife, Asking

  Case of Swans, 7 Rep. 15, 17, 1592.

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• You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.

  Clint Eastwood

  Gun, Law, Names

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• I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.

  Clint Eastwood

  Children, People, Parent

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• The question, "What is the purpose thereof?" cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.

  Maimonides

  Purpose, Agents, Existence

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.440, Aeterna Press

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• I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court - but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.

  Martin Niemoller

  Christian, Believe, Home

  "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 334), 1984.

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• Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Men, Mediocrity

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• I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Thinking, Rocks, Feet

  Elizabeth Prentiss (2015). “Thoughts Concerning the King”, p.47

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• If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

  Peter Sellers

  Play, Ask Me, Knows

  "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion". Book by Leslie Halliwell 9p. 622), 1988.

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• So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

  Alan Lightman

  Life, Zero, Littles

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.27, Vintage

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• Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

  Julie Andrews

  Jobs, Sex, People

  News of the World, June 1986.

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• When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience.

  Julie Andrews

  Beautiful, Children, Sound

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• When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Sea, Coal Miners, Justice

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 9 : 'Social' or Distributive Justice, 1973.

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• Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.

  Michel Foucault

  Power, Desire, Trying

  "The History of Sexuality". Book by Michel Foucault, p. 97, 1984.

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• The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Responsibility, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Dad, Creativity

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the Apocalypse before us, and let us ask ourselves whether it should or should not make any difference in our present state of being.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Blessed, Thinking, Differences

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• We learn only to ask more questions.

  Larry Niven

  Larry Niven (1984). “Ringworld Engineers”, Del Rey

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• The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I've got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they'd ask 'And who's the girl?' Just one famous face isn't enough any more.

  Gary Oldman

  Girl, Two, Years

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• Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

  Cole Porter

  Country, Land, Sky

  Song: Don't Fence Me In

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• The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Philosophy, Criticism, Limits

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.47, Northwestern University Press

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• I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.

  Steven Morrissey

  Song, Pride, Cds

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