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• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Beautiful, Simple, Ideas

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• Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Simple, Games, Ideas

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• Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story about something like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing?" I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea.

  David Copperfield

  Girlfriend, Airplane, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Simple, Clouds, Views

  Source: bigthink.com

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  It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Simple, Ideas, Together

  "The New Populism Is A Fight For America’s Values". ourfuture.org. May 22, 2014.

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• I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Simple, Play, Ideas

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• It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.

  Desmond Tutu

  Simple, Race, Ideas

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• The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

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• If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.98

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• My dad said, "As long as you're happy." I used to think it was kind of a very simple idea or philosophy because he wasn't religious. But you've got to try and be happy. And if you're not happy, you can't help anyone else. So obviously, some crazy people could go to places, but I just think you need to be content within yourself, so that's the thing.

  Eddie Izzard

  Religious, Dad, Philosophy

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• In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

  Eric Liu

  Simple, Law, Ideas

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• Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.

  Shari Arison

  Heart, Simple, Ideas

  "Women in Business Q&A: Shari Arison, Owner the Arison Group" by Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2014.

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• Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

  Bernard Crick

  Technology, Simple, Ideas

  Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”

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• The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.

  George Sarton

  Acceptance, Simple, Ideas

  George Sarton (1952). “A History of Science: Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece”

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• A good ad is one simple idea, with humanity in it, that connects with consumers, that represents the value system of a company and then can connect it with the consumer. We always say a brand is set of shared values. So if you can simply demonstrate your value system as a brand, so that a consumer could say, "Ah, our values line up. I vote for you, brand!" that's a good ad.

  Donny Deutsch

  Simple, Ideas, People

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• A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.

  Pittacus Lore

  Simple, Ideas, Normal

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• As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Eye, Simple

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• It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving.

  Jeff Keane

  Simple, Ideas, Interesting

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• In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

  Paul Tsongas

  Running, Taken, Simple

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• The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

  Robert Grudin

  Beauty, Beautiful, Simple

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

  Craig Newmark

  Friendship, Running, Art

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• The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

  Marty Neumeier

  Simple, Organization, Ideas

  Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.158, Peachpit Press

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• What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.

  Tom Brady

  Simple, Ideas, Simplicity

  FaceBook post by Tom Brady from Nov 18, 2011

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• String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.

  Michio Kaku

  Simple, Ideas, Two

  "A universe in a nutshell: The physics of everything, with Michio Kaku". bigthink.com.

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• It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

  Matt Ridley

  Zero, Lying, Heart

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