Quotes with simple-minded

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  • Anne Spencer A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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  • Doris Lessing A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Alfred Adler A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Andy Goldsworthy A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Winston Churchill All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Napoleon Hill All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Winston Churchill All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • W. H. Auden All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • C. S. Forester Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Bainbridge Colby And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Berkeley Breathed And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Hoff As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Mary Lou Retton As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
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  • Sarah Ban Breathnach As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    American author and philanthropist
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  • Cass Sunstein At least since 1947, the historical record seems to support a simple conclusion: If you want the American economy to grow, you ought to put a Democrat in the Oval Office.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cahan Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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