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There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law, punish those who do not.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Aristotle

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs, that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

My secret is simple - I pray.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

Dave Barry

But what is happiness, except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life, as the simple truth.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I we are one in knowledge.

Meister Eckhart

It is fatal to be a man or woman, pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated, far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment, that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

To disbelieve is easy, to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may as a rule be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Bill Gates

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end, because once you get there you can move mountains.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

On a level plain simple mounds look like hills, and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Oh come on, you have got to be kidding me. I had good looks but missed them. It is as simple as that. They just weren't falling. Some nights I am on fire and other nights I have nights like tonight where the shots weren't going in.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

It's quite simple (public speaking) Say what you have to say, and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down.

Winston Churchill

For me, it was always a simple passion.

Lance Armstrong

God always takes the simplest way.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

The statement of Christ is simple. He who sent me among you will come again . And he pointed to a lamb. The lamb is merely a symbol -- a sign. It stands for the voice - BABA. The announcement was The advent of BABA . He will wear a robe of red blooded robe. He will be short with a crown (of hair). The lamb is a sign and symbol of Love.

Sai Baba

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

Johnny Depp

We just did not execute in overtime and the execution was really simple ... They just got the ball to Jason and let him operate.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

Mason Cooley

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number add it to this number put the result there perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of let's say 1 000 000 per second. At 1 000 000 per second the results appear to be magic.

Steve Jobs

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