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• There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

  Hugh Downs

  Beach, Stars, Spring

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• When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

  Luc Tuymans

  Art, Answers, Paint

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• The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Ideas, Popular Song, May

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• Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.

  Robert McNamara

  Thinking, Events, Nuclear

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• The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Real, Salt, Fairy Tale

  "Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection".

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• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Belief, Trouble, Capacity

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• A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.

  Adolf Hitler

  Cute, Sweet, Stupid

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• Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

  Stanley Crouch

  Culture, Obsession, Inclusion

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• Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reflection, Today, Glee

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• Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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• Pop art is
  the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

  Robert Indiana

  Dream, Art, Optimistic

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• Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, Lying

  "Is There Hope for Francis on Gay Rights?" by Richard Socarides, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2013.

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• The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the uncertainty in the mind of the consumer as to the quality insofar as this is possible. I think this explanation, which is perhaps the naive one, is much more tenable than any idea of a monopoly seeking to increase incomes.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1983). “Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow: Applied economics”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

  Gloria Steinem

  Order, Belief, Injustice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.538, Open Road Media

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• Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

  Milan Kundera

  Questions And Answers, Serious

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

  Criss Jami

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.115, Criss Jami

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• I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!

  Shirley Manson

  Mistake, Giving, Arses

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• America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

  Christopher Morley

  Country, America, Government

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in the Ninevehs of our lives without being so conscious of the coming cataclysm that we are not serious citizens of our communities and nations. By living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are doing the most relevant thing we can do by way of helping. (There are civic and other chores to be done, of course.) Day in and day out, the gospel is the one thing that is most relevant, and we are to be of good cheer.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Jesus, Cheer

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

  Gore Vidal

  Nice, Believe, Men

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Nice, Fall

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Meaningful, War, People

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Ideas, Perfection

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• I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

  Grace Slick

  Mushrooms, San Francisco, Community

  Bopgraphy/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

  Craig Mello

  Discovery, Curiosity, Passionate

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