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• Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Men, Principles, Ordinary

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• What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

  Manuel Puig

  Dream, Synthesis, Nocturnal

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• In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

  Gary Ross

  Doe, World, Want

  "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.

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• I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Design, Independence, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19

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• Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard to the zoning ordinance, the Council sees a comprehensive approach, the ORC wants to review the ordinances and simplify them. Pam's vision was counter to that.

  Norman Foster

  Thinking, Vision, Wish

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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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• Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Two, Simplicity

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

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• The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Doubt, Overcoming

  Joyce Carol Oates (2007). “The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982”, Ecco

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• Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

  Ellis Peters

  Problem, Truth Is, Masters

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• The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

  William S. Burroughs

  Junk, Doe, Clients

  The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2, (p. 1), January 1957.

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• I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

  Roland Gift

  Self Worth, Wheels, Records

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• Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Statistics, Falsification

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• We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

  William James

  Ambition, Order, Political

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

  Keith Rabois

  Jobs, Mean, Editors

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• So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

  Keith Rabois

  Jobs, Team, People

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• I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap. I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—? Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn’t a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly. “Well, that’ll simplify things,” Fang said.

  James Patterson

  Keys, Mirrors, Lap

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Christian, Humble, Simple

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• The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Wall, Lying, People

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• Trust me, you're not my first choice to fight next to, Sunshine, but as as much as it would simplify things, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left you to her tender mercies." (Seth to Keenan as he comes to his aid against Bananach)

  Melissa Marr

  Sunshine, Fighting, Choices

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• Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ems, Information, Overload

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• Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.

  Richard Branson

  People, World, Helping

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• Slow down, simplify and be kind.

  Naomi Judd

  Be Kind, Kind, Slow Down

  Naomi Judd (2008). “Naomi's Guide to Aging Gratefully: Facts, Myths, and Good News for Boomers”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

  Amanda Palmer

  Girl, Bisexual, Thinking

  "Getting Real With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Karman Kregloe, www.afterellen.com. July 18, 2007.

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• I think that's necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that's out there - and that's true of the natural world as well as the mad-made world. Clearly, it's easier in the mad-made world because it has already been structured.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Photography, Thinking, Mad

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• Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

  Toyo Ito

  Needs, Use, Architecture

  "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

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