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When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that… — Michael Hayden
Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day, and sooner or… — Hilary Mantel
I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led… — Jennifer Chiaverini
I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had… — Irene Rosenfeld
I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention… — Mohsin Hamid
I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be… — Catherine Tate
And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them… — Bible
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics. — George J Mitchell
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce… — Janina Atkins
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. — Flannery OConnor
Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally. — Leonard Roy Frank
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this… — Bible
I have told Tiger and his parents when they asked me that I think, physically, his game is at a level where he can play… — Butch Harmon
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money.… — Gloria Steinem
I have been asked if I ever get the DTs; I don't know; it's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin. — W.C. Fields
OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to… — Ambrose Bierce
There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had such a mastery… — Wallace Stevens
It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, We base all our… — Ronald Reagan
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes… — Ambrose Bierce
And We did not send any apostle but that he should be obeyed by Allah's permission; and had they, when they were unjust to themselves,… — Quran

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