"A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human."

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Source : Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.18, The Floating Press

Charles Wagner

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“Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”

Source : Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.256, Anchor
“Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.”
“It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.”

Source : "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.
“I think all of our experience with (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there,.”
“When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.”
“Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life. I didn't want to talk to my teammates, I didn't want to talk to my wife, I didn't want to talk to my kids. And to come back from that is a lesson that you can come back from anything.”

Source : Source: espn.go.com
“I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.”

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