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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.


Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

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STEVE MARABOLI A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
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SHAWN AMOS No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
CYRIL CONNOLLY It complicates things, let's put it that way.
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KATHERINE FULLERTON GEROULD It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
KATHERINE FULLERTON GEROULD The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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LUCY LARCOM Food is for taste. Happiness is taste of life.
KAZERONNIE MAK May you be of service to mankind.
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man...
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CHARLES LINDBERGH An inferiority complex is acquired in childhood
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TOM PIAZZA I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.
BOBBY BROWN Last season left a bad taste in his mouth, I'm sure. He's got a good taste now.
CHRIS MALONEY The Truth that sets mankind free is not a word, it is 'The Word'_ which is Jesus.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL We're pleased to have acquired him. The reason we targeted him on the first day of free agency was b...
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LUCIA CAPOCCHIONE Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Calling O'Hare an airport is like calling the Queen Elizabeth II a boat.
ANDREW MALCOLM Calling O'Hare an airport is like calling the Queen Elizabeth II a boat.
ANDREW H. MALCOLM Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
MARY QUANT As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural...
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LUCIA CAPOCCHIONE The best treasure of life is not wealth, but it is simplicity with confidence.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
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ABHIJIT NASKAR We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
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CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI The key to a good life is to keep it simple, yet creating simplicity is such a complex issue.
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I like to work, read, learn, and under...
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CAITLYN JENNER And I alone of all mankind
Were left in loneliness behind.
WILLIAM BARNES The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
STEVE MARABOLI Seeing, touching is believing!
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BRANDON SANDERSON Real life hero stays with simplicity while Reel life hero works with publicity.
ANUJ SOMANY We played great against Cal-State Fullerton. We got big hits in scoring situations.
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FORREST GRIFFIN Facing test after test in life is the real taste of life#
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KATHARINE GRAHAM Never complain. Never explain.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.
KATHARINE MCPHEE A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless.
KATHARINE ASHE The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons scream...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else....
KATHARINE HEPBURN Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
KATHARINE HEPBURN When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
KATHARINE HEPBURN My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup o...
KATHARINE HEPBURN If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get marr...
KATHARINE HEPBURN To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
KATHARINE GRAHAM If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
KATHARINE GRAHAM [Descendants of these publishers still run their respective papers, and the attitude that they have ...
KATHARINE GRAHAM With rare exceptions, I feel strongly that McGovern's rule is an appropriate one for us all. The lon...
KATHARINE GRAHAM Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesso...
KATHARINE GRAHAM If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowled...
KATHARINE GRAHAM So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
KATHARINE GRAHAM No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else
KATHARINE GRAHAM These cool or antagonistic relationships are part of life in Washington and are accepted as such, bu...
KATHARINE GRAHAM Try asking for equal pay while wearing a baby-doll frock
KATHARINE VINER . . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
KATHARINE HEPBURN