Quotes with simple

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  • Peter Townshend If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Eugène Delacroix If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Emerson Pugh If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
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  • Will Rogers If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Erich Fromm Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • David Seabury Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Barack Obama Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carson McCullers It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Gore Vidal It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Honoré de Balzac It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • John Ruskin It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Quentin Crisp It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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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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  • 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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