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We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is? Stephen Hawking
So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lucille Clifton quote: "they ask me to rememberbut they want me to remembertheir..."
they ask me to rememberbut they want me to remembertheir memoriesand I keep on remembering mine Lucille Clifton
Baltasar Gracian quote: "Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some..."
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. Baltasar Gracian
Terry Prachett quote: "what are you doing here?" he asked."I live here..." I answered..."
what are you doing here?" he asked."I live here..." I answered sarcastically. Terry Prachett
Ozzy Osbourne quote: "he asked me. I told him. he said."
he asked me. I told him. he said. Ozzy Osbourne
And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion. Plato
the child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past. Cormac McCarthy
Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spread its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly. Must I write? Rainer Maria Rilke
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong. Herman Wouk
He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God. I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there. Mitch Albom
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity. Amy Tan
... a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer. Mark Haddon
Pamela Anderson : 'He called and called, leaving about twenty messages, just drunk dialing. One of them was him singing his version of the Oscar Mayer theme song: "My baloney has a first name, it's L-A-R-G-E. My baloney has a second name, it's P-E-N-I-S. I like to use it every day and if you ask me why, I'll saaay, 'Cuz my Large Penis has a way with P-U-S-S-Y today!" Actually that was the message that got me interested. Tommy Lee
Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American. Charlaine Harris

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