Asks Quotes
1142 quotes by 874 authors
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All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge.…
— Austin Bradford Hill
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A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.
— Terry Carr
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We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American…
— Barack Obama
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though…
— Saint Augustine
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The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we…
— Henry Suso
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They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its…
— Bertrand Russell
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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -…
— Carl Sagan
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Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
— Ronald Reagan
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Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each…
— Arundhati Roy
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The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or…
— Rona Barrett
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Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling…
— Harriet Quimby
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A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.
— Robert Engman
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Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to…
— Dan Beachy-Quick
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I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is…
— David Byrne
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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We had an episode where Bud asks his dad, I was named after the beer, right, Dad? And Ed ONeill, who played my dad, says,…
— David Faustino
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I’m not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think…
— Evelyne Brochu
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