"Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple."
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"Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time ago - complex problems invariably require complex and difficult solutions."
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"If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly."
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"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
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"Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person"
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"What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring."
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"It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you."
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"For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do."
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"It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory."
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"From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle."
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"The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult."
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"Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds."
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"Live simply that others might simply live."
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"I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much."
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"Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity."
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"His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion."
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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"
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"No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land."
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"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."
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