“ There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. ”
- Martin Gardner- Copy
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“ No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
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“ It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And are probably below it yourself. ”
- Frances Partridge- Copy
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“ I did not want simply to live or simply to live happily or well; I wanted to serve and do and make with some nobility. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
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“ Things should be explained as simply as possible, but not more simply. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. ”
- Robert Lynd- Copy
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“ The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way — which money could buy… to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal. ”
- Theodore Zeldin- Copy
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“ Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders… ”
- The Buddha- Copy
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“ Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders… ”
- Buddha- Copy
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“ In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. ”
- Edward P. Tryon- Copy
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“ In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. ”
- Patricia Moyes- Copy
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“ Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
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“ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
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“ If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. ”
- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book- Copy
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