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Arthur Conan Doyle
"Elementary, my dear Watson.
-Sherlock Holmes"
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Agatha Christie
"The simplest explanation is always the most likely."
— Agatha Christie
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Henry David Thoreau
"My greatest skill in life has been to want but little"
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)
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"The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied."
— Caroline Knapp
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Mother Teresa
"The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace"
— Mother Teresa
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Marjorie Pay Hinckley
"Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, "We are here in mortality, and the only way to go is through; there isn't any around!" I would add, the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley
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"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
— Catherine Deneuve
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"Even here, amid the sweep of endless woods,
Blue pomp of lakes, high cliffs and falling floods,
Not undelightful are the simplest charms,
Found by the grassy door of mountain farms."
— Wordsworth William
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Gustave Flaubert
"What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love."
— Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
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Richard Diaz
"Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple."
— Richard Diaz (Illness Defined; The Theorem)
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"Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?"
— Felder Rushing
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Kazuo Ishiguro
"I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking."
— Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)
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"The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values."
— Doris Christopher
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"Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple."
— Michail Kalashnikov
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"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. "
— Warren Buffet
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"It is often said that God is a comedian playing for an audience too afraid to laugh."
— Martin Spanjers
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