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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.
  • I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
  • And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
  • Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
  • Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
  • Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
  • Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
  • Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
  • The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
  • Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
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  • August Strindberg 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.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • George S. Clason Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
    George S. Clason
    American author (1874 - 1957)
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  • Billy Mays My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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  • Caroline Shaw '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.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Maya Angelou 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.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Joel Rosenberg 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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  • Horace Bushnell 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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  • George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • E. Joseph Cossman The greatest power is often simple patience.
    E. Joseph Cossman
    American author
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  • Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun 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.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Carl Sagan 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.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Adrian Cronauer 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.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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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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