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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Life, Yourself, True

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

War, Him, Fails

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Advice, Matter

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Society, Live, Mean

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs

Down, Older, Ask

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama

Love, Freedom, Patriotism

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama

History, Simple, Same

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius

Beauty, Beautiful, Nothing

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Michael Jackson

Simple, Children, Everyone

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine

Time, Him, Wish

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher

Life, God, Accept

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine

Nature, Truth, Liberty

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings

Beautiful, Question, Answer

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams

Wife, Nothing, Questions

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli

Wise, Fool, Wonders

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James A. Baldwin

Thinking, Action, Balance

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham

Work, Enough, Wealth

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II

Great, Sacrifice, Wealth

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler

Writing, Doubt, Him

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin

Experience, Others, Become

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison

Wedding, Woman, Before

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant

Sure, Needs, Thinks

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
Richard M. Nixon

Time, Try, Possible

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil

Enemy, Whether, Defeated

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Homer

Country, Brave, Cause

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen

God, Him, Thoughts

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Freeman Thomas

Good, Design, Honesty

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life, Spoiled, Endure

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
Cat Stevens

Beauty, God, Everything

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald Jampolsky

Love, Fear, State

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