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“The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.”

Writing Wells Book Different Stories Simple Novel Exciting Complexes Concentration Picture Books

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.”

“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.”

Way Firsts Wells I Can Helping Song Water Can Do Simple Areas Starting Rap Helpful Rap Song

Author:Jay-Z

“How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.”

Thinking Men Years Wells Simple Rocks Band Dignity Old Man Parody Rock Bands

Author:Nate Mendel

“Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.”

Wells May Mean Made Lasts Simple Behinds Quality Tools Leaving Expensive Buying Now And Then More Money Junk Simple Living Repetitive Discounts Living More

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.”

Way Mind Wells Body Spirituality Peace Simple Healthy Stress Profound Peaceful Well Being Breathing Martial Arts Healthy Body Stress Free

Author:Aaron Hoopes

“Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.”

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Author:Elihu Thomson

“The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.”

Wells Church Simple

Author:Robert Hugh Benson

“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”

Wells May Simple Pleasure Perception Capacity Simple Pleasures

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.”

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.”

Knows Wells Littles Art Able House Simple Deals Impossible Scene Prove Dear Appearance Insecurity Wealthy Simple Life Patron Creditors

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“If the salmon and steelhead are running, then as far as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His worldthe health of the environment is good if the salmon and steelhead are around. It is that simple.”

Ifs Knows Wells Running Simple Environment Concerned God Knows Salmon Oregon

Author:Tom McCall

“Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.”

Men Wells Children Play Simple Answers Masters Golf Complicated Puzzles Grown Man

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.”

Wells Simple Common Obvious Common Things Keep It Simple Obvious Things

Author:Leo Burnett

“When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.”

Giving Wells Motivational Spiritual Turns Understanding Simple Creation Planets Eating Tables Appreciation Meals Our Planet Spiritual Experience Deep Understanding

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.”

Ifs Want Wells Persons Different Play Eye Simple Blind Thee Closing Closing Your Eyes Blind Person

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Well you learn from making mistakes. It's that simple.”

Wells Simple Mistake Making Mistakes

Author:Buck Brannaman

“Compensation is counterintuitive: The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you. But few people perceive this simple truth. Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away. That's why their purses refuse to fatten.”

People Giving Trying Wells Littles Simple Return Refuse Treasure Perceive Compensation Purses Simple Truths

Author:Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.”

People Thinking Wells Simple Appearance Openness Prophecy Preparing Cunning Refutation

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple - you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.”

Ifs Wells Certain Simple Love You Bears Genuine Salt Mushrooms Resemblance Having Patience False Love Toadstools

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“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

“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!”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“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

“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

“Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.”

Humans Wells Speak Imagination Simple Novel Mythology Beast Unicorn Human Imagination Chimera Sphinx Kangaroos Minotaur Centaurs Starfish Pastiche Mythical Beasts

Author:William Poundstone

“When I was there at Marvel, everybody thought if you could draw well and you could do sensational panels, that you were going to be a success. The truth is that no matter how good or bad you are as a draftsman, if you can't tell a story, you don't last in comics. ...About halfway through my stay at Marvel, I realized I was being paid to tell a story, not do a drawing. That's why my stuff is always rather simple and uncomplicated compared to a lot of guys.”

Ifs Wells Book Matter Stories Lasts Guy Stuff Simple Truth Is Draws Paid Drawing I Realized Comic Comic Book Halfway Sensational Uncomplicated Draftsman

Author:John Romita, Sr.

“I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.”

Wells Littles I Can Hands Can Do Simple Balance Tricks Cards Coins Chins Brooms Sleight Of Hand Carnies

Author:Rich Sommer

“As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.”

Wells May Hands Seems Spirit Simple Walks Tree Land Mines Keys Harmony Dear Thee Gentle Locks Solemn Intricate Musings Pine Trees

Author:John Barlas

“Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.”

“But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?”

Wells May Home Causes Simple Effects Baby Birth Rose Rate Population Credit Germany Mistaken Cause And Effect Tempting Correlation Pseudoscience Birth Rate Storks Home Birth

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“[Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism.... [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all people, to exact science, to observed facts, and even to reason itself, would seem to need no refutation. But the corruption of this age, the machinations of the perverse, the danger of the simple, demand that such fancies, altogether absurd though they are, should - since they borrow the mask of science - be refuted by true science.”

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Author:Pope Pius IX

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.”

Wells Simple One Thing Tools Sake Hammers Gadgets

Author:Rob Corddry

“Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.”

Ifs Wells Would Be Causes Simple Powerful Common Practice Advice Limits Ill Breathe Well Being Breathing Just One Ill Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is rich with rare insights into how men really see women in the workplace-and how with a few simple adjustments you can even the playing field.”

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Author:Lois P Frankel

“It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income' -- well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair -- giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.”

Ifs Giving Wells Has Beens Care Simple Class Break Middle Fairs Medical Income Health Care Middle Class Wealthy Just Being Entitled Propositions Adequate Taxpayers

Author:Joe Biden

“I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.”

“I know I'm going to have to get beyond being George H.W. Bush's son and Barbara's son -- for which I'm really proud. And I'm going to get beyond being George W.'s brother for which I am extraordinarily proud as well, there's a lot of interest in finding the ways that we are different and all this. Well, the simple fact is that we're all on our own life's journey -- my brothers and sister are different than me.”

Knows Way Life Wells Different Facts Interest Simple Journey Son Brother Proud Findings My Brother Brothers And Sisters Barbara George H W Bush

Author:Jeb Bush

“We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.”

“There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"”

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Author:Robin Williams

“I do wish that I had gone to college, just for the simple fact that knowing more than one approach makes you more well-rounded. But I still can't say knowing what I know now, that I would have done it any differently.”

Knows Wells Stills Done Facts Wish Simple Gone Knowing College Approach Well Rounded Knowing More

Author:Meagan Good

“I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Dancing makes people feel good whether they're doing it or watching it. It's something I think everybody can relate to whether it's just a simple two-step or a B-boy watching another B-boy go crazy in a circle. It makes you smile and without you even knowing it and it makes you rock to the beat as well.”

People Thinking Feels Wells Two Simple Steps Boys Knowing Crazy Rocks Beats Dancing Circles Feel Good Relate Without You Make You Smile

Author:Stephen Boss

“If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.”

Ifs Want Wells Happens Simple Careers Things Happen

Author:Ashley Purdy

“[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”

“Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"”

World Years Wells Three Asks Individual Social Religious Simple Business Conflict Years Ago Organization Thirds Affair Manage Biosphere Year One Disarray

Author:Dee Hock

“For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.”

People Wells Country Reason Would Be Action Social Simple Environment Needed Messages Tests Bases Decent Slogans Ghetto Affluence Social Action Decent Life

Author:Barry Commoner

“Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's also a strong focus on selectionism and the notion that religion plays a functional role in the evolutionary process. But religion is dysfunctional all the time, as well as functional. It's not so simple.”

Ifs Knows Years Wells Play Strong Process Simple Christianity Roles Focus Four Buddhism Hundred Universal Notion

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.”

Wells Language Social Parent Simple Rooms Millions Grace Doors Behavior Expectations Constant Silly Abstract Rebellion Household Better Life Closed Doors Well Mannered Social Graces

Author:Jack Nicholson

“The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.”

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Author:Jai Courtney

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