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• It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

  Charles Peguy

  Creativity, Essence, Ideas

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• The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Littles, Ethical

  Elizabeth Gunn, Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “A daring coiffeur: reflections on War and peace and Anna Karenina”, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

  Hal Borland

  Wisdom, Lying, New Beginnings

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• What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Serious Person, Sticks, Gestures

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• I always think about the simplest things in a relationship that have frustrated me. It always sort of comes down to communication. Even something as simple as probably the worst thing that could happen is, 'Where do you want to go to dinner?' 'I dunno. Where do you want to go to dinner?' 'I dunno.' That might be the worst thing in the world.

  Mandy Moore

  Communication, Simple, Thinking

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• Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.

  Richie Sambora

  Dream, Children, Believe

  Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.

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• Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.

  Richard Jeni

  Religious, War, Killing Each Other

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• You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

  Agatha Christie

  Imagination, Too Much, Elegance

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.

  Adam Gopnik

  Behaviour, Tables, Who We Are

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.  But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see.  I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go".

  May Sarton

  Self, Long, Machines

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• For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Principles, Analysis

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Physics”, p.11, Aeterna Press

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• The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

  Lincoln Child

  Explanation

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• Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.

  Brandon Boyd

  Christian, Giving Up, Mean

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• We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

  Julia Child

  Fun, Pleasure, Should

  "Julia Child Boiling, Answers Her Critics" by Carol Lawson, www.nytimes.com. 1990.

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• Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment presents the richest opportunity to be loving. And you can share love in the simplest of ways. Be soft and gentle. Be caring and kind. Be loving in an ordinary way, without any sense of wanting anything back, Life offers you the most precious gift. The gift of allowing you to be present and share love.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Love, Caring, Blessing

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• Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Expression, Statistics

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• The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Sky, Paradise

  Thomas Gray (2014). “Gray's English Poems”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Actors, Levels

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• The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

  Carol P. Christ

  Independent, Female, Goddess

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• A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Believe, Reflection, Fundamentals

  William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”

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• Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

  Arthur Eddington

  May, Matter, Genocide

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• My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

  James Fenton

  War, Simple, Feelings

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• What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Divorce, Thinking, Long

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• One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Tools, Growing

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• The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

  Chuck Jones

  Thinking, Essence, Drawing

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