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• I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

  Donald Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Kids, Mind, Wish

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Please learn that as you wrestle with a challenge and feel sadness because of it, you can simultaneously have peace and rejoicing.

  Richard G. Scott

  Peace, Sadness, Adversity

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• I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Traitor

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• The only way I could get my old CD into stores is if I took one in and leave it. "Sir, you forgot this." "No, I did not. That is for sale. Please alphabetize it."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cds

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• No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

  Jason Aldean

  People, Matter, No Matter What

  "Jason Aldean interview: New country superstar keeps practical approach despite success". Interview with John Serba, www.mlive.com. February 13, 2014.

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• Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space.

  Eddie Izzard

  Blow, Government, Australia

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• Streets full of water. Please Advise.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Humor, Water

  "Final telegram to be sent. STOP" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Humor, Republican

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• Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Funny, Sorry, Liars

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• I'll have that one, please.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Funny, Humor

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• Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Love, Christian, Needed

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• My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Prayer, Swings

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1989). “The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952”

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• I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

  Bill Watterson

  Order, Editors, Ideas

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• In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

  Desmond Tutu

  Sorry, Humility, Order

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we create our own reality, I always demur and say, "Please, would you mind adjusting that a little bit? We create our own appearances." We become master of appearances and as we change our thought, we will see the appearances around us change. That gives us this huge sense of dominion and power and control over our world.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Our World, Light

  Source: rbach.proboards.com

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• Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.

  Richard Bach

  War, Moving, Fall

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sex, Anger, Delight

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ... : with Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.187

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• This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Past

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• I'm gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

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• There are two types of wine essentially, and everybody knows this. There's the one where you drink it and go, "Mmmm, well that's ok, can we get 8 of those please, give us 8 of those." There's the other one, you know, where you go "Ga... bt... Jesus, WHAT is that?" Very, very occasionally I concede you will hit a subtle one. You know, where you go "Ga... ba... ah, actually that's not that bad, that is. It's quite nice."

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Jesus, Nice

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, People, Actresses

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• My name is "A Pimp named Slickback" Wait... A Pimp?? ... Named Slickback. Yes, please say the whole thing if you would. Yes, that includs the "A Pimp Named" part. Yes Tom, everytime.

  Katt Williams

  Funny, Humor, Names

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• My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Legacy, Care

  Source: logosjournal.com

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