"Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains."
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"It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it."
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"I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them."
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"The secret to beauty is simple - be who you are."
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"Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe."
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"Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable."
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"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."
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"Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work."
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"Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God."
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"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple."
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"Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view."
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"As an artist, i feel lucky to have been given the gift of creativity so that i may share my vision of a better world. I will never forget what it was like to be poor and that is why it is so important to me that my work be accessible to all people. For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is the most important to me."
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"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."
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"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."
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"It’s simple, really: Be great right now so that you can be great later on."
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"You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection."
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"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
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"Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc."
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"I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now."
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"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary."
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