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• Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Car, Understanding, Robots

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• It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.

  Colin Fletcher

  Rain, Sunset, Ebb And Flow

  Colin Fletcher (1973). “The Winds of Mara”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

  Pete Seeger

  Genius, Idiot, Complicated

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• It is very simple, Messi is the best in the world, and if you give him a little bit of space, he can do whatever he wants.

  Neymar

  Space, Giving, Messi

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• If there's anything you want to do and you can't figure out why you're not doing it, there's a simple answer: you link more pain to doing it than not doing it. Hey, if you don't have enough money, for example I know that's an issue for a lot of people. It was for a good deal of my life. If you don't have money there's only one reason: you link more pain to having more money than to not having it.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Issues, People

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• The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Book, World

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• Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called 'Constitutional law,' much of which has no basis in that document....The real question [for judicial nominees] is whether that nominee will follow the law or succumb to the lure of 'a living constitution,' 'evolving standards' and other lofty words meaning judicial power to reshape the law to suit their own personal preferences.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Law, Judging

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• Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

  Jon Rappoport

  America, Allies, Causes

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• Management is simple, innovation is hard.

  James Cook

  Innovation, Management, Hard

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• The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one.

  Leonard Read

  Men, Self, Mind

  "Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism". Book by Leonard Read, July 28, 2015.

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• Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

  George Will

  Improvement, Individual, Rules Of Life

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Is there another way? Of course there is. There is a way based on simple moral principles: Everyone keeps his own money. Everyone decides what to do with his own money. No income tax. No IRS. No government grants or assistance to anyone. All charity is voluntary. It's called freedom. It's a peaceful, harmonious way of life, one that Americans once believed in.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Government, Peaceful, Income

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• The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Community, President

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• What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

  James Cook

  Believe, Simplicity, Arguing

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• Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Struggle, Past, Years

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• Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Government, Subsidies

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.198, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ideas, Earth, Hell

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• Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.

  John Updike

  Home, Sunshine, Night

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• Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Historical, Elude

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.250, Vintage

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• Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Mean, Men

  C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). “The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward”, p.63, TellerBooks

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• The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

  George Gilder

  Men, Keys, Creative

  George F. Gilder (1992). “Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise”, Ics Press

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• If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.

  Neal Boortz

  Perception, Luck, Income

  Neal Boortz (2001). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, Taylor Trade Pub

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• The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Wish, Ambitious

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• Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ignorance, Successful, Men

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• Simple smile, a cheerful hello or a word of encouragement It's amazing what an impact you will have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Encouragement, Impact, Cheerful

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