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• Less is only more where more is no good.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Artist, Interesting

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Struggle, Simple Life

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• There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Majesty

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.64

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• A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Humility, Long, Simple Life

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• Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Beautiful, Cutting, Simple

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Simple

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.37, New World Library

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• 'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Simple, Thinking

  "The Future of Architecture".

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• So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

  Wendell Berry

  Government, Doe, Flags

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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• Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Simplicity In Art, Adornment

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• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Popularity

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Men, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (1949). “Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  Hank Stram

  Philosophy, Plus, Variety

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• I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.

  Ela Bhatt

  Comprehensive, Relish, Values

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• A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Humanity, Characteristics

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Real, Plies, Genius

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “Old and New Church Music (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

  Pat Buchanan

  Attitude, Communication, Sides

  "Right from the Beginning". Book by Patrick Buchanan,, 1988.

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• Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

  Rose Macaulay

  Struggle, Fall, Long

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thank God, Furniture, Aids

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Believe, Simple

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Running, Culture, Literature

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• Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Simple, Men, Civilization

  "Two-Way Ticket to Paradise', book review of Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva". The New York Times, August 29, 1975.

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• A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Vocabulary, Simple Life, Simple Living

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• I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Real, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.201, Yale University Press

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