Quotes with simple-minded

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  • Virginia Woolf It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • O. Henry It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Bob Beauprez It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Barry Marshall It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Billy Corgan It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bob Geldof It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Sam Levenson It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Birch Bayh It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Douglas Adams Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Mark Twain Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Confucius Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Anita Brookner Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Michael Leunig Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
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  • Michael Korda Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to ''make'' your luck by being always prepared.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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