"Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow."

-- Roger Kimball

#Simplicity Quotes #May Quotes #Complexity Quotes

“The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.”
“A moment will pass, but a movement will last.”
“If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.53, MIRA
“When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.”
“If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.”
“Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.”

Source : Song: I Need You, Album: Don't Say No
“There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.”
“So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.”

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