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Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Simple, Talking, Want

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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, Simple, Blue

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The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

Ross Perot

Dream, Simple, Three

Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”

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Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

Frank Sinatra

Simple, Pieces, Honest

"Read Playboy ... for the Interviews" by Max Linsky, www.slate.com. November 26, 2012.

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I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of invective I have ever leveled at either the I.R.S. or the D.M.V.

Gina Barreca

Simple, Eyebrows, Feminism

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To clothe the fiery thought
In simple words succeeds,
For still the craft of genius is
To mask a king in weeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weed, Kings, Simple

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.85, U of Nebraska Press

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No simple word
That shall be uttered at our mirthful board,
Shall make us sad next morning; or affright
The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.

Ben Jonson

Morning, Regret, Simple

Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”, p.674

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But better far it is to speak
One simple word, which now and then
Shall waken their free nature in the weak
And friendless sons of men.

James Russell Lowell

Sympathy, Son, Simple

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

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Our very name for God's Creation is NATURE, for that is what Nature is. I shall define Nature for you in simple words. Nature is an electric wave thought image of God's nature, electrically projected from His formless and unconditioned ONE LIGHT into countless many forms of conditioned light which we call matter.

Walter Russell

Nature, Simple, Reality

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Look for ways to be a blessing.
Simple words of encouragement can brighten somebody’s day.

Joel Osteen

Encouragement, Blessing, Simple

Twitter post from Jun 28, 2014

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CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.

Frances Ridley Havergal

Jesus, Mean, Heart

Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

Wayne Muller

Taken, Simple, Together

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My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Prayer, Simple

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I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

Jim Elliot

Jesus, Passion, Men

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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Tycho Brahe

Simple, Language, Truth Is

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Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Charles Kennedy

Honesty, Simple, Justice

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Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No!

Mike Yaconelli

Tired, Simple, Decisions We Make

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In more simple words, we might say everything in the universe is trying to become every other thing; and every condition of everything is trying to become every other condition. A hot iron, for example, will strive to become as cool as its environment, and the cool environment will strive to become as hot as the hot iron. They compromise and find an equilibrium between the two, which is neither the one thing nor the other. This conspicuous fact is one of the most characteristic traits of Nature.

Walter Russell

Simple, Breathing, Two

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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Carol Ann Duffy

Simple, Use, Way

"Winning lines" by Peter Forbes, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2002.

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Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

Deb Caletti

Confused, Eye, Simple

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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

Gail Collins

Song, Writing, Simple

"Will Journalism Go the Way of Whaling?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 27, 2013.

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I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

Marilyn Monroe

Simple, Dying, World

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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

Roald Dahl

Kindness, Simple, Thinking

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What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Richard Russo

Simple, What If, New Friendship

FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 02, 2012

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There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

Patricia A. McKillip

Simple, Language, Behinds

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