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To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the… — Frederick The Great
If you have a problem or desire a healing, try this exercise before falling asleep. Catch yourself at that point just before you fall asleep… — Harold Klemp
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself.… — Elmore Leonard
In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us, be it agreeable… — Vincent de Paul
The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him. — Vincent de Paul
Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones! — Vincent de Paul
Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to… — Vincent de Paul
Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those… — Vincent de Paul
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're… — Maggie Stiefvater
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan
[Please let my daughter] not have to wear high heels. — Tina Fey
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full… — Marcus Aurelius
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of… — Oscar Wilde
If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find… — Gertrude Jekyll
The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise,… — Carol Roth
I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be… — Ashley Purdy
Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible? — Jon Stewart

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