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bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.
Richard DawkinsRead
You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
RumiRead
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
John LennonRead
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
C. S. LewisRead
Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
Ulrike MeinhofRead
Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]
William ShakespeareRead
I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.
Walt WhitmanRead
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
Friedrich SchillerRead
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
Arthur C. ClarkeRead
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma GandhiRead
I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
Lady GagaRead
Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
Leonard CohenRead
‎If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.
Douglas AdamsRead
I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.
Anne FrankRead
Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.
C. S. LewisRead
He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls
Rick RiordanRead
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.
David Foster WallaceRead
Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.
Kurt CobainRead
A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.
Dale CarnegieRead
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
AristophanesRead
Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.
Michael JacksonRead

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