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  • Ben Carson A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • James Baldwin A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
    We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Billie Burke An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • Walter Bagehot An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Simone Weil An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Alberto Salazar An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Bo Bennett An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Angela Davis And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • George Orwell Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Alan Greenspan Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Carl Sagan Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Bennett As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
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  • Brad Stone As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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