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• When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Lullaby, I Realized

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I often encountered books by academics and others who had not actually done what they had written about. They tend to create artificial simplicity; their prose doesn't have the vigor of "lived words." On the other hand, many practitioners lack the context or introspection to make their experiences and understandings transferable - and, in our time, many don't actually write the books they "author." My ideal is to unify theory and practice.

  James M Strock

  Book, Writing, Understanding

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• I always go for simplicity.

  David Bailey

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• Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

  Anita Brookner

  Women, Simple, Thinking

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• Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

  Douglas Horton

  Motivational, Success, Greed

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• The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Believe, Simple

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.20, Routledge

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• Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Perfection, Add, Body

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Family, Long Distance Relationship, Witty

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.3, Open Road Media

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• I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

  Grace Slick

  Song, Recording Studio, Recording Music

  "Summer of Love: 40 Years Later / Grace Slick" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. May 20, 2007.

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• Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Nature, Good Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.61, Graphic Arts Books

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• I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.

  Thomas Merton

  Kindness, Real, Thinking

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• By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.

  Alison Croggon

  Blow, Thinking, Light

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• In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

  Aberjhani

  Flower, Eye, Garden

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.78, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms, etc. - to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are "true," that they reveal a genuine feature of nature... You must have felt this too: The almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Thinking, Etc, Helping

  "Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior". Book by Del Thiessen, 1995.

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• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Lazy, Intellectual

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Horse, Heart, Opportunity

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.280, Open Road Media

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• Truth resists simplicity.

  John Green

  Life

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• To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gratitude, Acceptance, Riches

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Genius, Answers

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• This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Beautiful, Definitions, Emptiness

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspiring, Nature, Ifs

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.34, New World Library

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• I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Sweet, Flower

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

  Nella Larsen

  Spiritual, Laughter, Pride

  Nella Larsen (2013). “Quicksand & Passing”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Heart, Humanity, Genius

  Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr

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