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• Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

  Rod Coronado

  Children, Want, Building

  "Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness". Book by Dean Kuipers, 2009.

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• Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! Then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! He payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Giving Up, Winning, Thinking

  "Mistress of Mistresses". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1935.

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• It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Happiness, Spiritual, Leaving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 297), 1895.

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• Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Inward, Surrender, States

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1804). “The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion”, p.458

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• But please remember, that in 1991 in the Sejm [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country!

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Country, Special, Demand

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke's blog, April 7, 2010.

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• I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.)

  Ingo Molnar

  Simple, Names, People

  LWN.net comment, lwn.net. June 12, 2011.

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• A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Girl, Practice, Numbers

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 513, 2005.

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• Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.

  Ali al-Sistani

  Party, Law, Office

  "Top Iraqi Shi'ite cleric rejects Baathist law". www.reuters.com. April 2, 2007.

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• Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.

  Maryrose Wood

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Matter, Speak

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• Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Liberty, Should

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• Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love - which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Giving Up, Practice, Perfect

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• That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit.'

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Home, Wife

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• Preach My Gospel missionaries act in faith and are guided by the Spirit to help investigators learn truth. Please always remember Him, be worthy to represent Him, treasure up His word, allow the Holy Ghost to witness all truth, and observe, listen, and discern as you testify of Jesus Christ to honest seekers of truth.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Treasure, Spirit

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• Radical Christians are not people who wear Christian t-shirts. Radical Christians are those who bear fruit of the Holy Spirit...A little boy, Andrew, a Muslim shot him five times through the stomach and left him on a sidewalk simply because he said, 'I am so afraid, but I can not deny Jesus Christ! Please don't kill me! But I will not deny Him!' He died in a pool of blood, and you talk about being a radical Christian because you wear a t-shirt!

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Jesus, Boys

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• If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

  Guy Steele

  Giving, Language, Computer

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• Either lead or follow, but please don’t block the road for those who move forward

  Phil Karn

  Block, Moving, Moving Forward

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• Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Endeavour, Reader

  Samuel Johnson (1806). “Works”, p.34

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• Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Trouble

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Imagination, Effort

  Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

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• You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.

  William Cobbett

  Men, Rights, Long

  William Cobbett (2012). “A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland”, p.231, TAN Books

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• The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.

  Peter S. Grosscup

  Building Up, Organization, Roots

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• The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, War, Mean

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• The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Trying, Demand

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• Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Atheism, Way

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