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

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Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#Inspirational Life Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Taste Quotes

“First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.”
“Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out." (Marco) BAM! BAM! BAM! "Okay, so it's four trash cans," (Marco) " BAM! BAM! BAM! "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" (Jake)”
“Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms,”

Source : "‘Game of Thrones’ star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau keeps homicidal streak alive in ‘Headhunters’ " by Ethan Sacks, www.nydailynews.com. April 28, 2012.
“Poetry lies its way to the truth.”
“Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris LeDoux from Jul 22, 2014
“I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.”

Source : William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.114, Beacon Press
“Truth must be found in reality, not systems.”
“To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.”

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