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The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text… — Jonathan Culler
There is a kind of poetry in simple fact. — Edward Abbey
You say youâ€™re sure? Sure that youâ€™re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? — Kazuo Ishiguro
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the… — George Jones
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any… — Thomas Paine
The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple… — Robert Adams
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of… — James Truslow Adams
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to… — Conor Oberst
Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate… — Jeff Miller
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult. — Erich Fromm
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing… — William James
What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing — Hannah Arendt
If things were simple, word would have gotten around. — Jacques Derrida
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain… — Louis Althusser
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness… — Marquis de Sade
Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically... — Roger Federer
Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it. — Les Baxter
The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for… — Renee Ellmers
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words. — Doris Humphrey

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