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• The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Reading, Book

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• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Writing, Hype

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• My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Humanity, Four

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• Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Unique, Games, Play

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• Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Thinking, Journey, Hiking

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.117, Knopf

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• Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Spring, Teaching, Simple

  Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Children's Song"

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• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Creativity, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

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• Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.

  Colin Fletcher

  Exercise, Men, Firsts

  Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

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• By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.

  Colin Fletcher

  Uplifting, Simple, Naked

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.849, Knopf

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• The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

  Eugene Wigner

  Expression, Law, Use

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• The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

  Grady Booch

  Simple, Computer, Programming

  "Qt for Symbian". Book by Frank H. P. Fitzek et al., 2010.

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• Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.

  Walt Mossberg

  Real, Book, Remember You

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• The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Heart, Mind

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• It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

  John Maurice Clark

  Beautiful, Struggle, Ease

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• Simplify, then add lightness.

  Colin Chapman

  Life, Simple, Add

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• People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Life, Simple, People

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• Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish

  George S. Clason

  Simple, Men, Goal

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Expansion, Matter

  James Clerk Maxwell (1871). “Theory of Heat”, p.31

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• The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.

  Melvin Schwartz

  Lying, Science, Law

  Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a humble, simple prayer at least each morning and evening to express thanks and to seek divine guidance.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Life, Morning, Prayer

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• Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Respect, Real, People

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• The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.

  Pope Paul VI

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1976*). “On evangelization in the modern world”

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• Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light.

  Ambrose

  God, Faith, Religious

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• Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Inspiration, Profound

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• All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Religious, Inspiration

  "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien".

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