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Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts: to ask for the compassion of the enlightened beings, to ask for purification and healing, to ask for the power to understand the meaning of our suffering and transform it; at a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.

Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.

Ask of Her, the mighty Mother._x000D__x000D_Her reply puts this other_x000D__x000D_Question: What is Spring?-_x000D__x000D_Growth in every thing -_x000D__x000D__x000D_Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,_x000D__x000D_Grass and green world all together,_x000D__x000D_Star-eyed strawberry breasted_x000D__x000D_Throstle above Her nested_x000D__x000D__x000D_Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin_x000D__x000D_Forms and warms the life within,_x000D__x000D_And bird and blossom swell_x000D__x000D_In sod or sheath or shell.

Spring has again returned. _x000D__x000D_The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D__x000D_Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D__x000D_of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D__x000D__x000D_Strict was her teacher. _x000D__x000D_The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D__x000D_Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D__x000D_we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!

Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!

An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus I am able to draw on this auxiliary memory bank. Moreover, there is a second way In which I get ideas ... I listen carefully to what my wife says, and in this way I often get a good idea. I recommend to ... young people ... that you make a permanent acquisition of an auxiliary memory bank that you can become familiar with and draw upon throughout your lives.

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?