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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

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Achievement Amazing Ask Enough
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If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Corporation Honesty Creating Conditions
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Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

About Angry Answer Arms
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Leader Effective Manipulative Figure
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Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
Ask Greatest Her His
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There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf

Freedom See Hear Feel
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Parent Little Given
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
Ask Man Knows
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

College Student Educating Eliminate
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Fortune Calling Leaves
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It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Easy Hell Gate Death
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What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Ask Being Children Dozen
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I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

Actual Asked Clothing Lady
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Happened Analysis Bad Good
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Children Asking Growing Refuses
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The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Task Government Honey Bitter
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We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

God Lord Blessings Created
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Ignorant Answers Question
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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Anything Ask Learn Never
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Ask God Never Success Power
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When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
About Ask Assets Bank
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The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?'
Question Asked Teaching True
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With Heaven’s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you.

Empire Heaven Aid Conquered
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Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

People Proof Committed Words
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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Behind Building Face Liberal
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I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

Basketball Corner Dogs Eating
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We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

Examine Task God Ego
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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Apple Ask France Happiness
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A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
Lady Gentleman Dance Supper
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When called upon, do your best. That's all anyone can ask.

Best Anyone Ask
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”

Regards Education Task Survival
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Always Another Approved Asked
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I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

All-Star Basketball Die Game
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Affected Attention Attention Span Brain
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Ask Back Except Get
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Asking Dance Echo Poetry
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

Australia Basketball Really Watch
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Basketball Boat Current Excel
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

Hand Rich Askance Poverty
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The plan is to make money, and we know the fans are going to ask for mixtapes, and those mixtapes are going to hit.

The Plan Is To
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Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Prayer Steadies Walking Slippery
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Baseball Basketball Bit College
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“We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.”

Spend Time Thanking God
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Adult Asking Childish Persist
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The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.

Afforded Another Before Build
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I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

Always Asked Feel I Think
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Difficult Learning Life Most
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You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Basketball Besides Game Gave
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