"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage"
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"If you still are growing, you go through the archetype of the statesman or stateswoman. You stop asking "What are my quotas?" and stop saying "What is in it for me?" and "How much can I get?" You begin to say, instead, "What are your quotas?" and, "How may I serve?" Providing for others becomes much more important in your life than what you can get for yourself."
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"We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer."
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"Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble."
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"My favorite prayer is thank you. Most people are asking for things and not doing their part."
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"I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks."
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"People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them."
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"Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry."
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"If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work."
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"We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves."
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"We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?"
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"If you’re asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion."
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"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."
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"But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission."
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"To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?""
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"If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers."
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"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it."
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"There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them."
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"Enjoy the questions and forget the answers."
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"Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions."
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