"Many things are lost for want of asking."
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"Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich."
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"Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'"
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"Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place."
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"The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage."
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"Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it."
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"Inside any deep asking is the answering."
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"I don't wanna go throught the motions I don't wanna go one more day Without your all-consuming Passion inside of me I don't wanna spend my whole life asking What if I had given everything? Instead of going through the motions."
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"If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself."
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"There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there."
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"The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?"
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"The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question."
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"Are you asking a question because you want to know the answer or are you asking the question because you want your partner to know that you are having this question?"
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"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer."
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"I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries."
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"You weren't born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you'll have everything you want."
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"People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!"
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"Got everything I'm asking for but you."
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"You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know."
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"Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking."
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