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• The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

  Edward de Bono

  Perception, Why Not, Bombs

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• You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

  Henry Ford

  World, Reputation

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• The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.

  Oliver Sacks

  Drama, Narrative, Tasks

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• Making something simple is very difficult.

  Jack Dorsey

  Difficult

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• In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Eye, Healing

  "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. November 2007.

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• How do we find the Lord? I believe we have to seek Him in simple things. I believe we have to seek Him in personal prayer. I believe we must seek Him in personal service. I believe we seek and find Jesus when we follow His example.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

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• No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.

  Ayn Rand

  Cutting, Men, Self

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• Steady, sustained, and incremental spiritual progress produces the fruit of steadfastness-and helps us to reduce the disparity between what we know and what we do. Testimony is strengthened and conversion unto the Lord is deepened through small and simple things done well over time.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Progress, Done

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• Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Blue, Color

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• If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep - anybody can win, if he be the soul entry.
  Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Winning, Soul, Excellence

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• What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

  James Cook

  Believe, Simplicity, Arguing

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• Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.

  John Updike

  Home, Sunshine, Night

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• My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

  Winston Churchill

  Taste

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• Even a simple imaginary exercise can change your mood: Close your eyes, and take yourself back to your last holiday where there was a lovely warm sun, beautiful sea, relaxed beach and fun meals in the evenings. Open your eyes and consider how you feel now.

  Liz Miller

  Beautiful, Beach, Fun

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• God gives you the sight, the right, and the might to do great things, but you have to develop the fight!

  Tim Storey

  Jobs, Fighting, Sight

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe there's a universe out there - happening now - where we end up together and when I close my eyes at night, I'm not dreaming the way a normal person would. Instead I'm seeing flashes of our lives in the multiverse. They're not simple dreams because I miss you, right? They're scientific, anachronistic visions.

  Gaby Dunn

  Dream, Eye, Night

  Gaby Dunn (2012). “Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn”, p.62, VOOK

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• Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Friendship, Real Friends, Moments

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• 'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.

  David Allen

  Writing, Psychics, Space

  David Allen (2004). “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done”, p.27, Penguin

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• The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

  Poul Henningsen

  Views, Democracy, Trying

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• The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple.

  Charlie Munger

  Games, Quality, Pay

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• The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.

  Chalene Johnson

  Differences, Long, People

  Chalene Johnson (2012). “Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.12, Rodale

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• God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple.

  Ben Zobrist

  Mom, Jesus, Dad

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• The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Garden, Views

  Joseph Campbell (1983). “Historical Atlas of World Mythology: The way of the animal powers”, Vanderbilt Univ Department of

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• In the Confucian tradition is a simple formula that appeals to me deeply: 'If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.' I urge everyone to reflect deeply on these words, as simple as they are profound.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Character, Home, Heart

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• Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Car, Understanding, Robots

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