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• If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hair, Ideas, Desperation

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

  Ricky Gervais

  Please Me, Done, Common

  Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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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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• I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

  Fanny Burney

  Tired, Boredom, Giving

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

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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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• If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Should Have, Long, Want

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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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• 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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• L'homme qui a un peu use   ses e  motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.

  Sydney Samuelson

  Use, Littles, Emotion

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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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• If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.

  John Hodgman

  Football, Dad, Men

  John Hodgman (2012). “That is All”, p.58, Penguin

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• I was at a Golden Globes after party and Channing f**king Tatum came up to me, and his stunning missus, Jenna Dewan. And they said, 'We call each other moon of my life and my sun and stars’ and all that. I was like, 'I cannot contain this. Please, can we all have something sexual together? You're both beautiful. Even just a hug'.

  Emilia Clarke

  Beautiful, Kings, Stars

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• No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Thinking, Winning, Trying

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• America does not need to be worried with bailing out a European country that has made irresponsible expenditures, and then all of a sudden, throws their hands up and say, Oh, please come save us. That is not our responsibility in the United States of America.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Responsibility, Hands

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If the immigrant is responsible for assimilation of the country, and some of these people are in fact are born there. But if you find it unwelcoming to your own barbaric notions of equality, that is not on the country, that is on you. If you leave a horrible place, please leave your horrible practices behind.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Practice, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Appreciation, Charm, Conversation

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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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• Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

  Sadao Araki

  Japan, Voice, America

  "China and America" by Foster Rhea Dulles, (p. 200), 1981.

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• I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

  Filipp Golikov

  "What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa" by David E. Murphy , (p. 249), 2005.

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