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Moreover, you simple-mindedly define “the rich” as the only ones who contribute.
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But who could hate even the simple-mindedly violent people of Sill?
Enjoyment 2010
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Ours is not to question, or to reason why; ours is to simple-mindedly claim to be "conservative" as were told we are by those who claim to be "conservative" and with whose underlying hatefulness we identify.
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I've tried very hard to convince a number of the more enlightened Democrats who serve on the Senate education panel to introduce amendments that will drastically reduce our government's reliance upon standardized exams in judgment of a child, school, or teacher, and attribute greater weight to factors that are not so simple-mindedly reducible to numbers.
Jonathan Kozol: Why I am Fasting: An Explanation to My Friends 2008
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For example, British economist John Maynard Keynes was until very recently scorned by the right wing; his brand of economics was called "liberal" and he was simplistically, perhaps, simple-mindedly, associated with Marx.
The GOP Will Have to Steal the Next Election Because They Cannot Win it 2008
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The isolated quotation strips out the implied emphasis on “appear to”, leaving exactly what a simple-mindedly pious audience — in Kansas, for instance — wants to hear.
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They are almost exactly the same people: idealists, people who simple-mindedly long for goodness, justice, and sanity; the difference is one of style. ...
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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They are almost exactly the same people: idealists, people who simple-mindedly long for goodness, justice, and sanity; the difference is one of style. ...
No Comfort Here 2007
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You might recognize a familiar narrative design — rise and fall, loss and survival — but all the different actors and stories might seem an arbitrary and simple-mindedly literal way to make Shakespeare's point that in his life a man plays many parts.
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I had once thought, rather simple-mindedly, that Wodehouse's downplaying of Wilde might have to do with a revulsion from homosexuality.
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