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• It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

  Ian Mcewan

  Life, Real, Simple

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214

  Melody Beattie

  Simple, Despair, Trying

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• Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Years, Two

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Cute, Hurt, Party

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.164, Macmillan

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• But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

  Ronald Reagan

  Simple, Immigration, Borders

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Knowledge, Science

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• 'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

  Henri Nouwen

  Simple, Attention, Should

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• The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Truth, Communication, Simple

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• Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

  Mikhail Tal

  Simple, Games, Chess Game

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• The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy to think of children as lumps of putty to be shaped instead of partners in a human relationship.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Teaching, Taken

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.594, Penguin UK

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• I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Simple, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.181, Penguin

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• Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

  Richard North Patterson

  Book, Writing, Simple

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• Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

  John Barth

  Girl, Simple, Civilization

  L. Rust Hills, John Barth (1974). “Writer's choice”, Modern Library

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• Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me, just the opposite is the case: the society exists for the individual, the culture exists for the individual, the nation exists for the individual. Everything can be sacrificed, but the individual cannot be sacrificed for anything. Individuality is the very flowering of existence - nothing is higher than it. But no culture, no society, no civilization is ready to accept a simple truth.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Simple, Opposites

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• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Loneliness, Simple

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• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

  Walter Raleigh

  Love, Writing, Opportunity

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.111

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• Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Knowledge, Science, Simple

  "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 159, 1996.

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• There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations.
  There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Truth, Science, Simple

  "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 158, 1996.

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• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Simple, Accepting

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XIV: "Who Rules The World?", 1929.

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• If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound. You will know every being, look in the eyes of every being, and you know, you will recognize yourself. These things are not poetry. They are simple truths. You will experience them. In your heart they will be confirmed.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Eye

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• One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

  William Barclay

  Book, Simple, New Testament

  William Barclay (1961). “The Making of the Bible”

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• The things we do today - sowing seeds, or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him.

  George Matheson

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

  Brian Tracy

  Simple, Keys, Careers

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 25, 2013

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• The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom of religion, of association, of disassociation, and believe they should be treated with respect. I wouldn't dream of drumming them out of the military, firing them for their faith, tearing up their relationships, or taking their children away from them. The favor, alas, is not returned.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Christian, Dream, Children

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