simplicity

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Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

- Greene, Graham

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

- Oscar Wilde

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Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

- Holliwell, Raymond

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

- Jim Horning

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See it big, and keep it simple.

- Peterson, Wilferd A.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

- Stuberg, Robert

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

- Gibbs, Willard

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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

- Einstein, Albert

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I have revered always not crude verbosity, but holy simplicity.

- Saint Jerome

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There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

- Hoare, C.A.R.

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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

- Pilgrim, Peace

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

- Albert Einstein

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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

- Buffett, Warren

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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

- Proverb, Chinese

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God always takes the simplest way.

- Einstein, Albert

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Einstein, Albert

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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

- Henry David Thoreau