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• The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Men, Views

  "A feather on the breath of God" by Nur Elmessiri, Al-Ahram Weekly Online, Issue 385, July 9-15, 1998.

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• Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Expression, Sight

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• Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Powerful, Moving

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• Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Play

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• [After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Fancy, Beard, Feminine

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• I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

  Vicki Baum

  New York, Two, Language

  Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”

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• An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Writing, People, Thrill

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Progress, Population

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.297

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• I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.

  Corazon Aquino

  Sleep, Done, Belief

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• I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life. My time has always had a tendency to slip away from me and do as it pleases. My life follows it, like a puppy after an untrained bird dog. Come night, my life shows up, usually covered with mud and full of stickers, exhausted but grinning happily. My time never returns.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Dog, Book, Night

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• The process of biblical change, explained in God's Word, begins when you repent of your sin and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. God has given you everything you need to make the changes in your life that will please Him and will lead to His blessings. As you continue to obey God's Word, biblical change toward maturity will occur in your life until you see Jesus face to face.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, Believe, Biblical

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• Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true; that it's as compact and mysterious as a neutron; that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1896, will you please simply believe me, and read it?

  Michael Cunningham

  Believe, Moving, Book

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• 'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Bed, Made

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• Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?

  Calvin Cheng

  Skins, Goes On, Loser

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• If you’re not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.

  Wilford W. Andersen

  Home, Two, Hearing

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• Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your reader, you will respect him and want to please him. You will not write down to him. You will take infinite pains with your work. You will write well. And if you write well, you will get published.

  Lee Wyndham

  Pain, Writing, Loving You

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• Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.

  Bryan Procter

  Pain, Pride, Giving

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• And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Jail, Agendas

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• If you're in a relationship with someone who does not honor or respect you, I want you to know you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help.

  Brooke Axtell

  Love, Honor, Doe

  "Obama, Katy Perry team up against domestic abuse at Grammys" by Brooke Axtell, www.reuters.com. February 9, 2015.

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• Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

  Patch Adams

  Life, Science, Medicine

  Patch Adams (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, "Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest." This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't
  think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.

  Bill Hicks

  New York, Thinking, Light

  "Dark Poet". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1991.

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• I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.

  Robert Dabney

  Mother, Father, War

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• Please don't allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.

  Colleen Hoover

  Feels

  Colleen Hoover (2015). “Confess: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  People, Bypass, Thee

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.102, Bethany House

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• Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.

  Mod Sun

  Thinking, Want Something, May

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