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• In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

  Cameron Dokey

  Simple, Spite, Prophecy

  Cameron Dokey, Mahlon F. Craft (2008). “Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of "The Magic Flute"”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.

  Mary Lawson

  Moving, School, Simple

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• I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Book, Judgement, Bars

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• If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out of straightforward obedience. "Your attendants. I have spoken to them. You will speak to them as well." "Ah. They have seen me in my nightshirt." He looked down at his sleeve, embroidered with white flowers. "Not in your nightshirt, though.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Flower

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• When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

  Don DeLillo

  Reality, Vision, Trying

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• The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Dragons, People

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• On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving

  Imtiaz Ali

  People, Giving, Feels

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• Evie," Lillian interupted impatiently, "men expect to be deceived in these matters. They're happiest that way. If one were straightforward with them the whole prospect of marriage would be too alarming, and none of them would ever do it.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Would Be, Matter

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• It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

  Martin Amis

  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2002.

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• For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

  Joseph Conrad

  Long, Feelings, Scare

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.29, eKitap Projesi

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• When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Dating, Twists, Traditional

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• I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Girl, Running, Strong

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• I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

  Michael Learned

  Love You, Mean, Television

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• It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fun, Character, People

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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• There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.

  John Green

  Thinking, Ironic, Important

  "Q&A: John Green & Nat Wolff on ‘Paper Towns’ Themes, Inside Jokes, Nicknames". Interview with Seth Kelley, variety.com. July 19, 2015.

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• If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Numbers, Looks

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• I am a straightforward man.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Letter to Louis Kossuth: Concerning Freedom and Slavery in the United States”, p.13

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• So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.

  Paul Davies

  Simple, Should Have, Ideas

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• Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.

  Robert Zubrin

  Mistake, Moon, Race

  Robert Zubrin (1999). “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization”, Tarcher

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• It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

  Caprice Bourret

  Night, Europe, Bulls

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  Oliver Lodge

  Personality, Facts, Able

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• Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Heaven, Jupiter

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• Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.

  Michael Nesmith

  Self, Research, Littles

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• You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.

  Martti Ahtisaari

  Nice, Party, Reality

  "Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wants Jobs for the Young". The Associated Press Article, October 11, 2008.

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• I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born.

  Dan Barker

  Christian, Easter, Challenges

  "Easter Challenge". www.patheos.com. March 27, 2013.

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