"What I really don't like is oversimplification."

-- Thomas J. Sargent

#Oversimplification Quotes

“Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (1995). “The Magic Circle”, p.8, Penguin
“If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?”
“You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.”

Source : "Fictional character: Maurice Oboukhoff". "The Killing", www.imdb.com. 1956.
“I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.”

Source : " Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.
“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, May 1936
“Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident about that path.”
“It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.”
“It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

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