"'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A simple I love you means more than money."
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"It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good."
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"The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?""
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"The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness."
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"A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom."
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"Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish."
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"But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself."
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"Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory."
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"An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way"
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"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow."
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"People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple."
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"The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of simple subtraction, multiplication and division, can be performed by it only just to that extent in which it is possible, by judicious mathematical arrangement and artifices, to reduce them to a series of additions."
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"That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay."
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"The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other."
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"Investing is simple, but not easy."
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"The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state."
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"There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state."
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"All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man."
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"It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life."
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