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Simpler Quotes

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't. Ben Gibbard
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? R. A. Salvatore
Taking a single letter from the alphabet," he said, "should make life simpler."I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder. James Thurber
for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it’s better, it’s simpler, and it’s at the forefront of technology. That’s where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores. Walter Isaacson
Terry Prachett quote: "Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told..."
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. Terry Prachett
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. Robert Louis Stevenson
Terry Prachett quote: "Things were simpler then. And also very, very stupid."
Things were simpler then. And also very, very stupid. Terry Prachett
A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given. C. S. Lewis
It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play. I find this a little exasperating, but I'm a lot more experienced now, and understand that probably less than 2 percent of the public can really hear. When I say hear, I mean follow a horn player through his ideas, and be able to understand those ideas in relation to the changes, if the changes are completely modern. Dixie is different - it's easier to... Chet Baker
Jodi Picoult quote: "Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. ..."
Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing. Jodi Picoult
Graham Greene quote: "In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey."
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. Graham Greene
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than..."
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine Lawrence Durrell
In most cases, people, even evil-doers, are much simpler and more nave than we generally suppose. And the same is true of you and me. Fyodor Dostoevsky
To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about. B. F. Skinner

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