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• Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Philosophy, Trouble

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.145, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

  Kristi Noem

  People, Trying, Needs

  "Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class" by Emily Miller, humanevents.com. February 14, 2011.

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• The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

  Percival Lowell

  Clear, Subjects, Whole

  "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.

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• If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.

  Peter Cohan

  Suffering, Want, Too Much

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• With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Block, Order

  "On The Nature of Photographs February 20th, 2015". Interview with Luc Sante, aperture.org. February 20, 2015.

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• People are weird. We do live on all levels at the same time and you can be fighting and flirting, and there can be fury and sexual tension. All that stuff can co-exist so it's just a testament to how complex we are. Or maybe it's a testament to how boringly we try and simplify everything.

  Alice Eve

  Fighting, Flirting, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Religious, Simplicity

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Simplicity, Should

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Suffering

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• If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Games, Mind

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Sight, Use

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.

  Louis Pasteur

  Prove

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• To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated...Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Men, Hands

  A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, Chapter 82, 1779.

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• You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Reality, Understanding, Firsts

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• I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

  Zainab Salbi

  Mean, Challenges, Culture

  "Women Lean in Worldwide" by Zainab Salbi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2013.

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• I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.

  Ellen Dissanayake

  Art, Emotional, Media

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• You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. There is no reason why you can't build your company the same way. So force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. Basically take out that red and start eliminating stuff.

  Keith Rabois

  Character, Simple, Marketing

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Character, Discipline

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.

  Indira Gandhi

  Witty, Sex, Men

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Self, Mind

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.22, Broadway Books

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• Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

  David Gelernter

  Powerful, Real, Learning

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• In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

  Maimonides

  Learning, Simple, Programming

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• In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Broken, Promise, Should

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• Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Math, Numbers, Law

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