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• Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

  Bob Edwards

  Thinking, Dry Up, Organization

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• When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

  George P. Baker

  Drama, Play, Literature

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• I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

  John Gay

  Skills, Twists, Ease

  John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Taylor & Francis

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• Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

  Edward Young

  Men, Novelty, Lasts

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts”, p.112

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• In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

  Pliny the Younger

  Speech, Pleading, Cases

  "Epistles" by Pliny the Younger, Book I. 20,

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• The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.

  Richard Cecil

  Men, Mind, Trying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please."

  Hayden Panettiere

  Hero, Watches, Lasts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

  Tom Hardy

  Nice, Thinking, Class

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.

  Michel Ocelot

  World, May, Cinema

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing up. Classic films were some of the only ones I watched. So when the opportunity came for the show to audition, of course it was all of a sudden, "I sing! I sing! Send me in, please. I beg of you."

  Dianna Agron

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Musical

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk.

  John Leguizamo

  Character, Talking, Voice

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

  Dorothy Kelley Patterson

  Men, Forsake, Ifs

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• The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!

  Josiah Stamp

  Government, Roots, Mind

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• Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

  Tim Minchin

  Beautiful, Art, Stupid

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• Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.

  Kalidasa

  Pain, Soul, Wheels

  Kālidāsa, C. R. Devadhar (1984). “Works of Kalidasa: Kayva”, p.52, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.738, Modern Library

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• I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Lasts, Neighbor

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.88, Penguin

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• You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

  Brenda Laurel

  Users

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• ...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

  Audra McDonald

  Waiting, Shows, Knows

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• Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.

  Patrick Murray

  Disregard, Repent, Ifs

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• The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Unhappy, He Man

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• Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

  Ricky Gervais

  Believe, Animal, Years

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jan 18, 2015

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• How many people on Earth serve people? And how many people on Earth serve the Earth? The difference in the numbers must be enormous. It would reveal that the Earth is definitely not the primary concern of the human species. This might be fatal both to the Earth and to humanity. Please, leaders of the Earth and the nations, wake up to this potentially fatal disparity.

  Robert Muller

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.

  Jimy Williams

  Mean, Two, Expectations

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• It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Gold, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, David M Gross

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