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Letter "A" » asks
«When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.»
Author: Edna O'Brien
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Writer)
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«We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.»
«Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.»
«This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.»
Author: Walt Whitman
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«The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.»
«The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.»
«The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way»
«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.»
«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.»