#simply

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#forgotten #important #important things #invisible #most

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. ↗

— Scott Cook

#generation #instead #now #poverty #preparing

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

#anthropologist #asked #before #called #came

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#athletes #back #ball #bouncing #continue

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted. ↗

— Ira Glasser

#cannot #ceremony #choosing #forced #liberty

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu! ↗

— Daryl Hall

#away #bed #days #fever #flu

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#analyze #back #first #fundamentalists #islam

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#basic #concerned #everyday #everyday life #happens

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#britain #cannot #contributed #hugely #immigrants