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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
August Strindberg
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.


Thomas Hardy
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
Ross MacDonald
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Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job.
Joan Rivers
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
An Wang
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I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.
Basil Rathbone
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At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.


Jean Cocteau
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Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.


Martin O'Malley
Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.
Feist
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
E. F. Benson
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.


Don Marquis
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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil
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I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Paul Auster
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A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.


Charley Pride
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O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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