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• I have a little piece of advice for all the single guys out there, this is a piece of gold so please write this down. If you have the opportunity to star in a movie, do it. Seriously, I find it's a lot easier to meet girls.

  Vince Vaughn

  Girl, Stars, Writing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Might, Diligence, Goodness

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1861). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary”, p.253

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• There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Liars, Mean

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

  Saint Basil

  Jesus, Men, Names

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• Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

  Neil Diamond

  Men, Tunes, Needs

  Song: Cracklin' Rosie

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• Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Lying, Wish, Untruth

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• [Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

  Joan of Arc

  Wisdom, Grace, May

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• To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Mother, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

  Myrtle Reed

  Home

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• Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

  Lois Gould

  Mean, Men, Female

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• Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon-intensive commodity.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Meat, Commodity, Climate Change

  "Taking the Food Crisis Personally" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Men, World

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.

  Gardiner Spring

  Christian, Desire, World

  Gardiner Spring (1819). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.153

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• Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

  Phyllis Chesler

  Time, Waste, Killing

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• High in the sky is a bird on a wing
  Please carry me with you
  Far far away from the mad rushing crowd
  Please carry me with you.

  Tom Springfield

  Sky, Wings, Rushing

  "Song: 'Island of Dreams'". 1961.

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• Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

  Owen Feltham

  Ignorance, Men, Long

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• New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.

  Zelda Popkin

  New York, Fire, Car

  Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.16, Bitingduck Press LLC

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• Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

  Alexis De Veaux

  School, Want, Poverty

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• Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

  Drew Goddard

  Trying, Want, Film

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• Please make me either relatable or terrible.

  Jami Attenberg

  Terrible, Relatable

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  If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Expectations, People, Mad

  "Star Wars, Thor: The Dark World, Arrow: January 4th Comic Reel". Empire Online, www.cbr.com. January 4, 2013.

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• America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

  James Frey

  Religious, Order, Practice

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• I think that the gifts of the spirit are always subject to the control of the person who's exercising them. You're not forced in to doing it. Love never forces. And therefore 'the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet' is another way it is put. You don't suddenly find yourself taken over by a spirit and find yourself speaking tongues. You're in control, but it's a gift. You can stop and start as you please, but it's a way of communicating with God.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Taken, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.

  Billy Gardell

  Hate, Two, People

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• If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

  David Gilmour

  People, Concerts, Ifs

  "Q&A: David Gilmour". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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