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What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that… — James Branch Cabell
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead… — Rajneesh
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion. — George Bernard Shaw
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial… — Leo Tolstoy
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the greatest problems that money creates is that you never know whether you are loved or your money is loved, whether you are… — Rajneesh
Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. — Yogi Berra
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will… — Malcolm Forbes
"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large… — Charles de Lint
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. — Horace Bushnell
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple — Albert Einstein
Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years… — Alexander Cockburn
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest… — Leo Tolstoy
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is… — Henry David Thoreau
On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget? — William J. Clinton
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is… — Paul Wellstone
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely… — Gore Vidal
It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so… — Lewis Thomas
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the… — Alfred North Whitehead

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