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“So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.”

Has Beens Simple Results Sea Judging Source Holy Judgment Miracle Denied Flood Babe

Book:Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare

“All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, "Thou art my hiding-place.”

Heart Art Real Spiritual Simple Secret Audience Source Holy Lonely Deny Noble Ties Hiding Consolation Sanctuary Asylums Hiding Place Spiritual Strength

Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“Great floods have flown From simple sources.”

Simple Source Flood

Book:All's Well That Ends Well

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

“Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing and where you are going. Big almost impossible, highly meaningful goal + respectful & supportive team is the winning combination of fear & love. Meaning is the biggest sources of energy that gets you up in the morning.”

“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.”

Ifs Mean Facts Hands Difficult Simple Theory Source Primaries Appeals Characteristics Propositions Indirect Verification Primary Source

Book:Philosphical Discussions

Source: Philosphical Discussions

“Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.”

“The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.”

Knows Life Is Simple Powerful Source Most Powerful Simple Life Clutter Source Of Strength Happenstance Powerful Life

Book:Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year

Source: Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year

“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.”

Simple Party Pay Support Havens Source Reader Models Thirds Dollars Complicated Enterprise Print Proven Revenue Business Models Advertisers Third Parties

Author:Dave Eggers

“There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.”

Simple Ignorance Source Offense Conceit Lighters

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is colored by this reality.”

Self Facts Problem Reality Process Simple Issues Position Source News Defined Journalism Witness Journalist Dependent

Author:Edward Jay Epstein