Quotes with simply

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  • Bruce Babbitt Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • George Orwell What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Watson What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Camille Paglia What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barry Diller What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Seneca What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Carlos Fuentes What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Andrew Cohen When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Vauvenargues When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Billy Graham When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Sutter When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Luc de Clapiers When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
    Luc de Clapiers
    French writer and moralist
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  • Bart Stupak Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Albert Gray Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
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  • Dorothy Parker Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barbara Boxer With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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