"There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it."
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"When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?"
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"Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us."
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"On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in."
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"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?"
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"Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death."
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"We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple."
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"The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature."
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"Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty."
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"I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple."
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"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
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"What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul."
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"Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers."
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"The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue."
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"Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident."
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"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now."
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"In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference."
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"You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day."
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"From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs."
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"Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed."
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