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• The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

  Walter Bagehot

  Short Notice, Bankers, Banking

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

  Grace Slick

  Art, Different, Mediums

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• For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Honesty, Memories, Integrity

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• I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family. I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.

  Jase Robertson

  Love Is, Hunting, Fishing

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• All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Morning, Waiting, Lessons

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• Music will inevitably get you into Philosophy, and once you logically see that through, will end up getting you into Theology. Once you see that through, it will end up getting you to a simple place of being happy with yourself and everybody around you.

  Gino Vannelli

  Philosophy, Being Happy With Yourself, Ends

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• Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Incentives, Regulation, Process

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• If you're into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video camera. And all computers now come with an easy video editing software program. Just mess around with that for a little bit, try to figure it out, then just put stuff online and have fun. Never give up!

  Lucas Cruikshank

  Fun, Giving Up, Writing

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• I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.

  Jake Holmes

  Thinking, World, Used

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• We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.

  Warren Mundine

  Morning, Couple, Father

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• Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

  Winston Churchill

  Citizens, Want, Pleasure

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• We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

  Mardy Grothe

  Character, Flaws, Defects

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• I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

  Pete Sampras

  Tennis, Simple Life, Extravagance

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• Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

  Chai Lu

  Simplicity, Study, Painting

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• Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

  Phil Crosby

  Quality, Management, Needed

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Data, Creative, Way

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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• My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.

  Steve Nash

  Determination, Hard Work, Player

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• A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?

  John Edgar Park

  Christian, Book, Doe

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• ...thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective.

  Lee Jong-wook

  Pregnancy, Years, Needs

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• My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Trying, Quality, Plates

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• The simple approach is that if I stay aggressive, I'll hit less often with two strikes in the count. I've been aggressive, but I've missed pitches. If I can put them in play earlier in the count, I eliminate the two-strike approach.

  Curtis Granderson

  Play, Two, Strikes

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• There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Simplicity, Bars

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and the I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.

  Donald Trump

  Style, Pushing, Aim

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• As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Daughter, Wife, Schedules

  "LearnVest's CEO: 5 Time Management Tips I Can't Live Without" by Alexa von Tobel, www.businessinsider.com. September 11, 2013.

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• The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of simple subtraction, multiplication and division, can be performed by it only just to that extent in which it is possible, by judicious mathematical arrangement and artifices, to reduce them to a series of additions.

  Ada Lovelace

  Reality, Differences, Add

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