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“In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.”

Humans Simple Forget Animal Particular Personality Creatures Scripture Living Creatures

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.”

Suffering Simple Forget Bed Painful Simple Truths Painful Experiences

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“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

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”

Giving Doe Eye Simple Forget Views Tree Style Figures Fine Pure Window Spots Landscape Fancy Display Observers Palaces

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.”

Men Kind God Hands Purpose Fall Religious Simple Forget Son Hair Cancer Cherish Famine Unnoticed Hallucinations Insistence Sparrows Pestilence Tuberculosis

Author:Clarence Darrow

“With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others.”

Moments Simple Forget Technology Scheduling

Author:Michelle Gielan

“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.”

Ifs Writing Two Use Action Order Three Stuff Simple Forget Business Taken Written Week Havens Valuable Cards Productive Assets Forget It

Author:Seth Godin

“Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.”

Simple Forget Marketing Never Forget Truism Plain And Simple Forecasting

Author:Barry Ritholtz

“So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.”

Children Long Doe Simple Forget Divine Worldly Illumination Divine Wisdom

Author:Ramakrishna