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ask that

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So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact. Erving Goffman

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? Germaine Greer

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way. Anthony Bourdain

You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy. Bill Clinton

If a man be subject to the authority of another, he can at least ask that it not be an occasion for glee. John Kenneth Galbraith

To obtain that which is just we must ask that which is unjust. Latin Proverb

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