Simple Quotes

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...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. — Joseph Goebbels
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex. — Giorgio Armani
Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not… — Pope Benedict XVI
Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you… — Rajneesh
Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless. Any goal, and… — Rajneesh
So just look into your acts, into your thoughts, into your feelings: you will find the armor everywhere. Wherever you see fear, you have created… — Rajneesh
Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple… — Louis L'Amour
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness. — David Steindl-Rast
Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing… — Carol Burnett
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… — Alexander Hamilton
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with… — C.S. Lewis
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
'I believe in oÂne God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity… — Edward Gibbon
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has… — Saint John Chrysostom
The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly… — Unknown Author
It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it… — Kathryn Lindskoog

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