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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses."

Government America Simple
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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules."

Two Simple Care
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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
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"You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it."

Simple Use Judgment
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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'."

Jesus Simple Prayer
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Murray Gell-Mann Physicist
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"Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels."

Science Simple Nature
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements."

Feelings Simple Simplicity
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes."

Simple Sound Realizing
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God."

Heart Simple Simplicity
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it."

Doe Simple Next Steps
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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities."

Beautiful Reality Simple
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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
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"The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare."

Thinking Simple Egypt
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist."

Art Country Simple
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Denzel Washington Actor, Director
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"[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it."

Simple Serious Crafts
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Brother Lawrence Monk, Cook
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"I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD, or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others."

Mean Simple Prayer
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