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• Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

  Rod Coronado

  Children, Want, Building

  "Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness". Book by Dean Kuipers, 2009.

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• May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of Bêl and Nâbu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes.

  Cyrus the Great

  Blessed, Land, Long

  Inscription on the Cyrus Cylinder, as translated at Livius.org, www.livius.org. 538 B.C.E..

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• Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Roots, Fascists

  Il Giornale, January 05, 1990.

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• If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (...) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Teacher, Levels, Natural

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• Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

  Alan Hirsch

  Real, People, Leader

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

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• If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why.

  Herbert von Karajan

  Steps, Steps Forward, Ifs

  "The Book of Musical Anecdotes". Book by Norman Lebrecht, December 1985.

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• A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Believe, Fall, Survival

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• Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

  Randal Marlin

  Exercise, Democratic Ideals, Lips

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.13, Broadview Press

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• Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

  Indro Montanelli

  Gestures, Politician, Enough

  "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

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• The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Belief, Birth, Argument

  Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.71, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.

  Martha Raye

  Beautiful, Girl

  "Queens of comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers". Book by Susan Horowitz, p. 128, 1997.

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• Coca-Cola is little more than sugar, some flavoring, and lots of (carbonated) water. It is largely indistinguishable from innumerable other brands of cola, yet people around the world seem to think that Coca-Cola is something and they are eager to ask for it by name and even to pay a premium for it.

  George Ritzer

  Thinking, Names, People

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• No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?

  Shams Tabrizi

  People, Live Your Life, Want

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• It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

  David Brooks

  Helping

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• The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

  Heather Bresch

  Self, Careers, Tough Questions

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• People don't own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there's only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Team, Winning, People

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• When you're kind of the ugly stepsister, you just go to the prom with whoever asks you.

  Larry Coker

  Ugly, Kind, Prom

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• The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more?

  Larry Sabato

  Political, News, Pearls

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• If you don't know or didn't understand, ASK! It's your responsibility to find out. Research; demonstrate an unquenchable desire to know everything about your job. If something is broken or not right, take the initiative to fix it or make

  Dick Couch

  Jobs, Responsibility, Broken

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• You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don't know your birthday. We don't know your home address. We don't know where you work. We don't know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

  Jan Koum

  Home, Gps, Data

  "Setting the record straight". blog.whatsapp.com. March 17, 2014.

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• The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision.

  Ken Hutcherson

  Decision, President, United States

  "The next great American leader? Glenn interviews him on radio today". Interview with Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?

  Christopher Doyle

  Hands, Cameras, Knows

  "Christopher Doyle Calls 'Life Of Pi' A 'Fucking Insult To Cinematography,' Hates On 'Lincoln' & More". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Let me go to hell, that's all i ask.

  Samuel

  Bliss, Hell, Cursing

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• Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors.

  Holt McCallany

  Morning, Guy, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship. ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.

  Robert D. Hales

  True Friend, Want, Path

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