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• For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Loyalty, Book, Home

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• On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Simple, People, Mind

  "HoneyLine: Diet Should be a Four Letter Word" by Gabrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

  David A. Bednar

  God, Faith, Christian

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• It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.

  Donny Deutsch

  Simple, Guy, Decision

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• The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

  Paul Dirac

  Simple, Two, Way

  "Dirac: A Scientific Biography". Book by Helge Kragh, p. 258, 1990.

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• In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Giving Up, Science, Simple

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, War, Simple

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• An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

  William Castle

  Funny, Fashion, Laughter

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• The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

  John Baldoni

  Inspiring, Leadership, Lying

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• Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

  Stella McCartney

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Simple

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• Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Rain, Simple

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• I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation.

  Malala Yousafzai

  War, Fighting, Simple

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• Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, School, Simple

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• Simplify, then add lightness.

  Colin Chapman

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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• The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

  Jack Welch

  Art, Mistake, Simple

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• America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that, from this night on, they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book of revelations. (The Bible) That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Lying, Book

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.

  Ted Danson

  Beach, Ocean, Simple

  "Ocean Ambassadors pledge drive launched". www.cnn.com. September 23, 1998.

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• This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I thought people listened only because they were too timid to speak or did not know the answer. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Simple, People, Silence

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• Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

  Alan Kay

  Simple, Simplicity, Should

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• The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

  Henry Ford

  Philosophy, Simple, Automobile

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• Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Simple, Mind

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