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• When the customer has beaten upon you long enough, give him what he asks for, instead of what he needs.
  This is very strong medicine, and is normally only required once. -- The Consultant's Curse...
• To him that can take all that you have, give what he asks.
• A man enters a pet shop, seeking to purchase a parrot.
  He points to a fine colorful bird and asks how much it costs....
• The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it, whether he's got an abscess on his knee or his soul.
  -- Rona Barre...
• Kid goes into barber shop and orders his very long hair cut to the roots.
  Older bystander laughingly asks him how much weight he has lost in doing this....
• He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving "normally.
  -- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing '72...
• If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses.
  When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him....