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What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. — Maurice Strong
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a… — Harry S. Truman
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. — George Will
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking… — Edward de Bono
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. — Ambrose Bierce
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste. — P.G. Wodehouse
We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when… — Neil Strauss
LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own… — William Shakespeare
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. — Miguel de Cervantes
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled… — Thomas Mann
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory.… — Alejandra Pizarnik
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. — Miguel de Cervantes
All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of… — Brigham Young
Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman. — Diana Wynne Jones
She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She… — Rachel Klein
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. — Maria Edgeworth
Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior. — Steven Brust
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased.… — Mortimer Adler
And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should… — C.S. Lewis
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly… — Charlotte Bronte
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does… — Robert A. Heinlein
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but… — Milan Kundera

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