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• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.21, Coyote Canyon Press

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• I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

  Victor Borge

  Courses, Has Beens

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• The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Heart, Purpose

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• To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.

  John Owen

  Believe, Fall, Mean

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• We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Past, Why Not

  "The Spiritual Man".

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• If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Captivity, Want, Duress

  U.S. News and World Report, October 7, 1985.

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• And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Years, Giving

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• The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water.

  Kelly Rowland

  Crazy, Love Is, Water

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• I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

  Hamid Karzai

  Enemy, Neighbor, Interest

  Interview with Aryn Baker, bakhtarnews.com.af. May 13, 2012.

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• If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.

  Michele Bachmann

  Data, Census Bureau, Organization

  "Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment". Fox News Interview, talkingpointsmemo.com. June 25, 2009.

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• I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

  Queen Latifah

  Queens, Should, Treatment

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• Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Engineering, Organization, Deception

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• Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.

  Douglas Coupland

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Light, Government, Modest

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• I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

  Jeremy Lin

  Media, Bombarded By, Space

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• A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

  Diane Sawyer

  Criticism, Way

  "How Can I Help My 10-Year-Old Be More Independent?" by Susan Stiffelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2013.

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• You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'

  Luke Bryan

  Issues, Fans, Clubs

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• God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

  Walter Martin

  Prayer, Exercise, Doe

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• all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

  Truman Capote

  Prayer, Past, Simple

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.62, Vintage

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• Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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• Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Stress, Writing, Honey

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• According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her countless times each day with the angelic greeting, "Hail, Mary", while prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests. According to St. Augustine, even St. Michael, though prince of all the heavenly court, is the most eager of all the angels to honour her and lead others to honour her. At all times he awaits the privilege of going at her word to the aid of one of her servants.

  Louis de Montfort

  Mother, Angel, Heaven

  Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.9, Danka

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• What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for me more often, Roran Stronghammer. Only next time, I think you should prepare several deer at once. Otherwise, I won't get a proper meal.' Roran hesitated, as if unable to decide whether her request was serious and, if so, how he could politely extricate himself froim such an unlooked -for and rather onerous obligation.

  Christopher Paolini

  Sweet, Thinking, Meals

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1460, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Media Control, Sound, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.274, Cambridge University Press

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• Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Prayer, Suffering, Progress

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