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“Great floods have flown From simple sources.”

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.”

Simple Common Clear Philosopher Absence Usage Jargon Simple Words Erudition

Author:Andre Maurois

“Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.”

“The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.”

World Years Believe Wells I Can Light Earth Force Simple Space Five Position Hundred Method Wide Fifty Intrigue Assassination Insufficient Specialty Devious Light Years

Book:The Stars, Like Dust

Source: The Stars, Like Dust

“My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.”

Ideas Natural Simple Habit Tendencies Spray

Author:Anne Lamott

“It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.”

May Art War Simple Arms Credit Strongest Art Of War Purses Expenditures

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.”

Art War Ends Feelings Force Simple Mankind Effects Battle Europe Endure Cease Horrible Administration Destroying Massacres Gallantry

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.”

Thinking Philosophy Simple Results Activity Complicated Knots

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.”

Feels Trying Long Universe Energy Understanding Simple Behinds Practice Clear Events Creatures Beats Bones Cute Sensations Multiplicity

Author:Alan Watts

“Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.”

May Language Simple Greater Effects Symbols

Book:Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative

Source: Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative

“How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.”

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

“The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.”

Process Natural Simple Conditions Example Development Indispensable Mechanic Comprehension Natural Science

Book:The Science of Mechanics

Source: The Science of Mechanics

“Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh, basically a star is a pretty simple thing.' And from the back of the room was heard the voice of R. O. Redman, saying, 'Well, Fred, you'd look pretty simple too, from ten parsecs!”

Wells Looks Stars Voice Simple Rooms Heard Ten Meetings Clubs Tea Simple Things Venues

Author:Fred Hoyle

“I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection”

Ifs Heart Use Feelings Simple My Heart Gratitude Lays Notes Dear Affection Concerts Daddy Simple Words Filial

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.”

Ifs Simple Enemy Dangerous Flower Genius Gentleman Hats Tunes Buried Threatened Canon Hats Off

Author:Frederic Chopin

“Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.”

Stills Dream Hands Simple Flower Hair Rain And Love Moved Caves Dove

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.”

Enough Eye Running Simple Sun Feet Stones Grass Shade Minnows

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.”

People Ifs Men Persons Dream Would Be Spirit Simple Taken Abuse Obedience Ambitious Prophecy Superstitious Crafty Ambitious Person

Book:Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.”

Writing Song My Own Simple Events News Philosophical Currents Developing Melody Current Events

Author:Phil Ochs

“What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.”

World Light Earth Spirit Simple Forget Pleasure Morning Blood Rocks Demand Spring Ancient Delight Deny Graves Noise Evening Traffic Fog Flowering Morning Light

Author:Stephen Spender

“We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.”

World Political Term Simple Levels Deals Company University Credit Entrepreneurship Deficit Short Term Political Systems High Level Impeccable

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.It is a statement of faith.”

Has Beens Facts Simple Known Theory Consequence Statements Realms Physicist

Book:The Pursuit of Simplicity

Source: The Pursuit of Simplicity

“[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.”

Self Simple Century Taught Britain Ambitious Engineers Mechanic Illiterate Workmen Self Taught

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.”

God Simple Expression Fellows Mere Dear Superstitions Vulgar

Book:The clouds: Translated by William Arrowsmith, with sketches by Thomas McClure

Source: The clouds: Translated by William Arrowsmith, with sketches by Thomas McClure

“Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.”

Simple Results Purity Vacuums Assembling Rigour

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.”

Firsts May Art Certain Culture Simple Style Complexity Mature Glances Symmetry

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.”

People Wells Matter Young Simple Answers Feminism Pride Resent Bhutto

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.”

Matter Felt Interest Simple Deals Circumstances Understood Trials Duration Public Interest

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.”

Self Speak Hurt Simple Groups Communication Rage Honestly Convince Aggression Indifferent Affirmation Hostile Assertion Psychotherapy Self Affirmation Deepest Thoughts

Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.”

Knows Want Wells Political Simple Information Scientist Complexes Arguing Educated Impulse Complexity Exposed Strain Leftists

Book:Coping: On the Practice of Government

Source: Coping: On the Practice of Government

“Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.”

Men Enough Fall House Easy Simple Ought Falling In Love Rough Rise Above

Book:Bruce Springsteen - Sheet Music Anthology: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection

Source: Bruce Springsteen - Sheet Music Anthology: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection

“Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.”

World May War Ends Simple Despair Capacity Disaster War Of The Worlds Excess Capitalist Sheer Outlets Bankruptcy Recurrence

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.”

People Reason Three Simple Rich Rocks Fame Band Rock And Roll Get Rich Getting Laid

Author:Bob Geldof

“I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.”

Enough Simple Teacher

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.”

Order Simple Mankind Socialist Future Of Mankind

Book:A Political Philosophy

Source: A Political Philosophy

“I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?”

Thinking Opportunity Simple Answers Common Attitude Liberty Havens Cold Spread Free Will Right Answers Undermining Implied Common Cold

Book:Stand on Zanzibar

Source: Stand on Zanzibar

“Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.”

Courses Simple Ought Logic Exact Sciences

Book:Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms

Source: Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms

“I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.”

People Thinking Said Character Wanted Simple Crazy Producers Simple Life Being Crazy Nicole Outlandish Spoilt Airheads

Author:Paris Hilton

“Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.”

Guy Simple Planets Other Guys Zidane

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.”

Needs Simple

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.”

People Knows Giving Stars Sound Simple Quality Movie Star Good Movie

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.”

Way Mean Doe Moments Today Form Simple Modern Amount Pure Capitalism Caught Definitions Surrender All Time Dominant Old Fashioned

Author:Alain Badiou

“I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.”

Ifs Needs I Can Simple Approach Cooking Eggs Angle

Author:Alton Brown

“The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.”

Said Ideas Shows Wanted Simple Talent All Time Reverse Venues Scams Gongs Talent Show

Author:Chuck Barris

“There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on.”

People Firsts Problem Together Simple Solve Opening Bridges Knocking

Book:What is realism?

Source: What is realism?

“It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.”

Way Long Facts Simple Decided Long Ago Reporters

Book:An Indian Summer

Source: An Indian Summer

“The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.”

Thinking Years Stories Seems Age Lost Nations Simple Economic Approach Management Seven Fats Contact Welfare Egypt Prudent Homely

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.”

Simple Results Principles Periods Flow Profit Selling Buying Consistent Courageous Formulas Application Investors Anxious Spectacular Foolproof

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.”

People Thinking Children Sometimes Simple Assuming Deeper Handle

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.”

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