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• I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Regard, Unwilling

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.74, Penguin

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• Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

  Richard Yates

  Motivation, Men, Every Man

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• They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Freedom, Might, Cry

  "Can Turkey under Erdoğan any longer" by Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2014.

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• I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

  GG Allin

  Artist, Performances

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• I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?

  Henri Barbusse

  Regret, Greatness, Humanity

  "Light" by Henri Barbusse, (Ch. XXII), 1919.

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• I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

  Dev Hynes

  People, Trying, World

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• Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Class, Hands

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• From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Frustrated, Acting, Events

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.47, NavPress

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• Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Thinking, People, Despair

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• War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Moving, Thinking

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• Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Hands, Color

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• My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Giving Up, Drinking, Bars

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• The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Art, Average, Ends

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• Lay off with the 'You reason, so you don't feel' stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel. When people say we should only feel I am reminded of Göring, who said 'I think with my blood.' See where it led him.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Blood, People

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• Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Hands, Luck

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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• If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

  Andy Rooney

  Dinner, Restaurants, Let Me

  "Andy Rooney Signs Off '60 Minutes' for Last Time: 'This Is a Moment I Have Dreaded'" by Kimberly Nordyke, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 02, 2011.

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• [T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Character, Men, Hands

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• So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Vanity, Law

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Rambler”, p.114

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• Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Peppers, Callous, Highest

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”, p.31

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• God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Soul, Stories

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Talking, World

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.873, Macmillan

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• Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

  Delia Smith

  Football, Becoming, Brown

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

  N. T. Wright

  Energy, Enabling, Spirit

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• Help me. Please, God help me.

  Christa Faust

  Helping, God Help Me, Help Me

  Christa Faust (2013). “Fringe - The Zodiac Paradox”, p.144, Titan Books

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