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• Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

  Fay Weldon

  Simple, Rough Times

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.

  Randy Newman

  Sleep, Simple, Get Better

  "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.

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• O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

  Alice Meynell

  Simple, Looks, Sides

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Simple, Paint

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• The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

  John Tesh

  Running, Dream, Simple

  John Tesh (2012). “Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Crazy, Home, Simple

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• It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

  David Lynch

  Simple, Ideas, Cards

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• I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and its all here.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Simple, Things In Life, Parks

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• Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

  Andy Stanley

  Morning, Sunday, Simple

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• Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

  Woody Allen

  Simple, Capacity To Love, Giving

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• Joy comes from places you least expect it. Its usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.

  Dave Gahan

  Basketball, Son, Simple

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• Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

  Arthur Golden

  Writing, Simple, Men

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• The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.

  Ann M. Dibb

  Blessing, Simple, Today

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• It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beauty, Simple, Imagination

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Simple, Israel

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.4240, e-artnow

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• In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simple, Perfect, Language

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.25, Routledge

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• When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.

  Yoko Ono

  Heart, Simple, Sky

  Twitter post from Nov 22, 2015

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• Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.

  Charlotte Selver

  Simple, Honor, Degrees

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• Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Meaningful, Fun, Simple

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• A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Reading, Simple, Worry

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.147, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Real, Drinking

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• Simple things don't interest me.

  Hiam Abbass

  Simple, Interest

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• To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.

  Rajneesh

  Mistake, Simple, Two

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• Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

  Allan Boesak

  Philosophy, Fall, Biblical

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Simple, Thinking

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