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• Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

  Craig Mello

  Discovery, Curiosity, Passionate

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• From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Profound, Simplicity

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit

  Duncan Sheik

  Thinking, Way

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• An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Reality, Track

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• The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didnt think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.

  Paul Bettany

  Jobs, Drama, School

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• Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

  Guy Delisle

  Memories, Block, Optimistic

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• After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.

  Bruno Bauer

  Order, Noble, World

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• Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

  Brian Reynolds

  Children, Agency, People

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• Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Perfect, Language, Salesman

  "C++ 0x - An Overview at University of Waterloo Computer Science Club".

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• It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

  David Bronstein

  Song, Kings, Winning

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here to set me right. The truth is that you did not believe in idealism. All love was suspect; even a saint's was just differed self-interest. And it was impossible to argue without sounding either sentimental or naive. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. And you studied early to disguise your childhood pain. But it is not universal.

  Michael Arditti

  Pain, Smart, Believe

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• After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Film, Unnecessary

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• If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Song, Religious

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• Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

  Alan Cohen

  Blessed, Blessed Are Those, Knows

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• We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800 years ago. We can laugh at them as being naive and unsophisticated, but unless we can gain that sensibility that there has to be rights of nature as Bolivians and others put it, then we're going to be destroyed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Years, Laughing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.

  Ken MacLeod

  Thinking, Southern, Way

  Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Media, Used

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.

  Van Jones

  Lying, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition.

  Van Jones

  Hero, Heart, Winning

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Some great experiences I've had and little by little I've come to the realization that everything Frank Zappa told me was the truth, whether I wanted to believe it or not. You know, I was young and naive or in denial. But he really was a special, special human being.

  Terry Bozzio

  Believe, Special, Realization

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you get tricked or you're kind of naive and you do something and people come steal your idea.

  Robert Greene

  Games, Ideas, People

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Thinking, Humanity, Trying

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Brave New World, Entering, Unions

  Source: www.ign.com

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• We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

  Florence King

  Nice, Government, Differences

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.82, Macmillan

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