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• Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family, and for community, and for humanity as a whole.

  Alan Keyes

  Mean, Opportunity, Community

  Alan Keyes' Address at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California, www.keyesarchives.com. March 4, 2000.

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• Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense of perpetual entitlement, they will jump up and insinuate themselves wherever they please--on your lap, on your newspaper, on your computer keyboard--and they really couldn't care less how their behavior affects the people in their lives. I've had boyfriends like this; who needs such behavior in a housepet?

  Caroline Knapp

  Cat, People, Needs

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• I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Country, School, Please Me

  Oscar Niemeyer's acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1988.

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• No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. I'm not hear to please.

  Britney Spears

  The End Of The Day, Matter, Ends

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• No more hellfires and please no more gunfire.

  Tiesto

  "Song: 'Dance4Life'". 2006,

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• A man after God's own heart is...
  a man who yearns to please God,
  a man who desires to grow spiritually,
  a man who had a heart that obeys.

  Jim George

  Heart, Men, Desire

  Jim George (2015). “A Young Man After God's Own Heart: A Teen's Guide to a Life of Extreme Adventure”, p.50, Harvest House Publishers

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• Ananna of Tanarau is a delightfully irascible heroine, inhabiting a fascinating and fresh new world that I would love to spend more time in. Pirate ships? Camels? Shadow dwelling assassins? Yes please! Can I have some more?

  Celine Kiernan

  Dwelling, Pirate, Shadow

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• When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on...Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?

  Alpana Singh

  Wine, Practice, Dating

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• The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Toil, Our Love, Ruins

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.

  William the Silent

  Issues, Plant, Holland

  "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 64, 1897.

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• Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

  Charles Stross

  Naysayers, Wells, Universe

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.230, Penguin

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• 'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.'
  'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.'
  'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

  Joseph Lowery

  Hamburgers, Coke

  Speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., Clemson University, January 17, 2005.

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• Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Mean, May, Courses

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• Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

  Paul Laseau

  Firsts, Please Yourself, Ifs

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• There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.

  Norbert Bisky

  People, Giving, Wish

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• If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Idols, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 174), 1986.

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• You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

  Ferran Adria

  Cooking, Vanguard, Polemics

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• Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Yield, Ease, May

  William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”

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• You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Reading, Desire, Motivated

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Balance, Unlikely

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.

  Kevin Leman

  Mom, Daughter, Sex

  Kevin Leman (2014). “Be the Dad She Needs You to Be: The Indelible Imprint a Father Leaves on His Daughter's Life”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Thinking, Vacuums

  Efthimia Bilissi, Michael Langford (2013). “Langford's Advanced Photography”, p.396, CRC Press

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• Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Love, May, Sake

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1895). “Cantica Canticorum: Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Solomon”

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• Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Guitar, Play, Piano

  "Swingin' Chicks of the '60s: A Tribute to 101 of the Decade's Defining Women". Book by Chris Strodder, 2000.

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• Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.

  Satoru Iwata

  Technology, Important, Investing

  "Satoru Iwata: Nintendo's Late Legend, in His Own Words" by Matt Kamen, www.wired.co.uk. July 13, 2015.

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