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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
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My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
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'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
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I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
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To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
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When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
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''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy. -
A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
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A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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