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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." »Plato, _Phaedrus_
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"Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior; the rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt up by the hot season." »Bhartrihari
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"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman." »Johann von Goethe
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." »Charles Mingu
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"He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes." »Black Elk
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"No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." »Aristotle
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"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS." »Robert Bakker
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"People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones." »Charles Franklin Kettering
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing." »Marquis de Sade
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"To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*" »Panchatantra
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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental." »Leopold Stein
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"A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor." »Jeffrey Klein
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"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly." »Claude M. Bristol
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"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it." »Emerson Pugh
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." »Oscar Wilde
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"It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about." »Barbara Friedman
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"Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded." »Med Jones
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"When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises." »Franklin P. Adams
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"An evil-minded man is quick to see His neighbour?s faults, though small as mustard seed; But when he turns his eyes towards his own, Though large as bilva fruit, he none descries." »Mahabharata
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"The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands." »Edmund Burke
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"The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands." »Edmund Burke
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"Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people." »Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
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"The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the happiness of others?even of those who injure them. True happiness consists in making happy." »Bharavi
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"The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." »1 Peter 47-8 Bible
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