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• You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

  Richard Russo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simply, Over, Greater

• Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

  Richard Rorty

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Seen, Simply

• But there is a disconnect here. Being wealthier simply does not translate into being happier. Many studies shows the United States to be no happier than it was 50 years ago; we are no happier than when we were poorer.

  A. J. Senchack

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  Some lessons can’t be taught. They simply have to be learned.

  Jodi Picoult

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• I don’t want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

  Trevor Phillips

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  She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of infinite stars.

  Neil Gaiman

  Topics in Sad

  Tags in Simply, Dance, Eyes

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  B. F. Skinner

  Topics in Failure, Mistake

  Tags in Simply, Circumstance

• There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

  Rod Serling

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• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  Sam Walton

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• The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people’s standards, that’s already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it’s a fact.

  Herman Cain

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  Tags in Taxes, Simply, Plan

• My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

  Cary Grant

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  Tags in Between, Simply, Living

• I certainly don’t know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I’ll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

  Karel Capek

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  Tags in Certainly, Claim, Locking, Forbidden, Simply, Theft, Prove

• If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

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• We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can’t take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major’s uniform on.

  Robert Benchley

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  Tags in Yet, Nation, Simply, Man

• Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

  Confucius

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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

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• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

  Parker Stevenson

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• Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Friendship

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