"Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions."
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"Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak."
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"Nothing is true, but that which is simple."
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"Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!"
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"Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all."
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"When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor."
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"Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family."
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"Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
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"When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life."
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"Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other."
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"The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
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"I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes."
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"Every great change is simple."
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"Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack."
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"The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere.""
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"The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others."
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"Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa."
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"Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back."
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"The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing."
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"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger."
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