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• When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Love, Simple, Rose

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• Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Sleep, Night

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• The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

  Larry Evans

  Beauty, Artist, Chess

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• The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

  John Maeda

  Thoughtful, Way, Achieve

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2016

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• The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

  Grady Booch

  Team, Tasks, Development

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.40, Pearson Education

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• What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

  Ward Cunningham

  Path, Solutions

  "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

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• There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

  Ward Cunningham

  Simple, People, Awful

  "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

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• Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Education, Lying, Learning

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• Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Should, Paradoxical

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• The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Beautiful, Swag, Lines

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Creativity, Law

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.12, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

  James Anthony Froude

  Simple, Greatness, Law

  James Anthony Froude (1917). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”

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• Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Home, Learning, Dark

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 18, 2011

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• All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Truth, Knowledge

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.426, Courier Corporation

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• The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Athlete, Community

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• Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity.

  Stanley Morison

  Mean, Discipline, Design

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• I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Fashion, Essence, Design

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• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Interior Design, Proportion

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

  Ron Jeffries

  Skills, Knowing, Design

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• A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Freedom, Lying, Fall

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• Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Simple

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• Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

  George Sand

  Beautiful, Art, Essence

  "Consuelo".

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• Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution.

  Jean Hugard

  Perfect, Magic, Demand

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• In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

  John Burroughs

  Stars, Winter, Moon

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.

  Trevanian

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.77, Broadway Books

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