"For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?"
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"The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle."
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"Ask counsel of him who rules himself well."
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"Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do."
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"We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions."
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"Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?"
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"Love simply is. [...] Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love."
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"All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates."
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"The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked."
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"Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?"
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"When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?"
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"You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it."
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"God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable."
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"If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders."
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"Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this."
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"He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books)."
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"The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become."
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"I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer"
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"You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE."
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"It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions."
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