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“Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.”

World Mind Ideas Nations Simple Clear Greater Complexes Conception Precise Greater Power

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.”

Would Be Purpose Individual Nations Simple Conscience Program Myth Excess Individualism Providing Founders Simple Life Reminding Simple Living

Author:David Shi

“Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.”

Nations Simple Liberty Crime Policy Drug Necks Strings Public Policy Narcotics Strings Attached

Author:Joel Miller

“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

“Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.”

Giving Reason Left Nations Causes Simple Cases Fit Naked Passed Away

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.”

Mind Believe Ends Facts Nations Differences Simple Family Successful Achieve Bears Don't Believe Size Behave Family Life Telescopes

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.”

Doe States Three Language Nations Sound Simple United United States Exercise Married Appreciate Mary Merry Vowels Elocution

Author:Jessica Mitford

“What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.”

People Ifs Believe Hard Young Opportunity Belief I Believe Nations Simple Poor Party Race Responsibility Rich Hard Work Profound Notion Regions Taking Responsibility Get Ahead Rich Or Poor

Author:Barack Obama

“The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.”

“They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange”

World Way Giving Wanted Culture Force Nations Simple Influence Modern Historical West Spheres Appreciated Modern World Colony Give And Take Sphere Of Influence

Author:Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.”

“I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.”

Thinking Way Country Seems Desire Nations Simple Answers United Fate Havens Conflict Claims Consistent Patriotic Patriot Mistaken United Nations His Love American Patriot

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services.”

“In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.”

Truth Nations Difficult Natural Simple Truth Is Sublime Natural Things

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.”

Children Two Humanity Strong Nations Justice Simple Powerful Civilization Deeper Two Things Sentiments

Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

“As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.”

Men Book Age Nations Dark Simple Theory Ordinary Medicine Forgotten Medical Dark Ages Ordinary Man

Author:John Wesley

“This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel, there would have been no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible and no Saviour. In John 4:22, Jesus Himself summed all this up in one simple statement: "Salvation is from the Jews." Christians from all other racial backgrounds owe to the Jewish people a spiritual debt which can never be calculated.”

“Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.”

Wells Reality Jobs Nations Difficult Simple Levels Example Simplicity Treated Complexity Suspects Migrate

Author:Oliver DeMille