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Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked. — Kofi Annan
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study… — John B. S. Haldane
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in… — Leo Szilard
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he… — Arthur Eddington
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It… — Niels Bohr
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place… — Archimedes
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick. — Thomas Beecham
Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself… — P.G. Wodehouse
Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I… — Randy Moss
I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked… — Stephen Moyer
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me… — Lorna Luft
I've 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
Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for… — Rajneesh

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