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• There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

  David R. Brower

  Safe, Matter, Waste

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• When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Samadhi, Erase

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• As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so there is a yearning for a simpler life; as we simplify our life, so the inner voice becomes clearer.

  Jennifer Kavanagh

  Spiritual, Simplicity, Path

  Jennifer Kavanagh (2011). “Simplicity Made Easy”, p.9, John Hunt Publishing

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• How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

  Emily Carr

  Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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• The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.

  David Milne

  Color, Trying, Lines

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• Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Gone, Operating Systems

  "Mac OS X Beta Arrives", abcnews.go.com.

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• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Dennis McCurdy's Find A Way is a straightforward compilation of suggestions that will simplify your life and set you on the path toward success. The book has the feel of a friendly neighbor sharing the secrets that enabled him to win in life. This is an easy read that pays big dividends. I enjoyed it and highly recommend Find A Way to anyone seeking motivation.

  Tolly Burkan

  Motivation, Book, Winning

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• When you pray, pray so that you may know Him. When you seek to simplify, do it as a means of knowing Him more. When you surrender, or behave with humility or sacrifice, do it with the sole purpose in mind to know Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Humility, Sacrifice

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• Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Law, Humanity

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• By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.

  Paul Rice

  Mean, Responsibility, Accomplishment

  Paul Rice (1989). “Timesource”, Ten Speed Pr

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• The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

  Cory Booker

  Focus, Choices, Limits

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• In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps them simplify the apparent complexities of the world so they can ignore the meaningless differences and draw connections between the things that really seem to matter. Third, based on the classification system, they propose a theory. The theory is a statement of what causes what and why, and under what circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Differences, Connections, World

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

  Marco Rubio

  Home, Guy, Trying

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

  Twyla Tharp

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

  Melissa Marr

  Simple, Evil, Division

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• Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.

  Gavin Douglas

  Remember, Remember Me

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• We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.

  Christoffer Boe

  Love You, Feelings, Age

  "Fade to Black: Christoffer Boe". Interview with Darroch Greer, Millimeter, September 01, 2004.

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• No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.

  Ryan Holiday

  Writing, Use, Pay

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• Risk is more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth. Live your values. Laugh. Cry. Innovate. Simplify. Adore mastery. Release mediocrity. Aim for genius. Stay humble. Be kinder than expected. Deliver more than is needed. Exude passion. Shatter your limits. Transcend your fears. Inspire others by your bigness. Dream big but start small. Act now. Don't stop. Change the world.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Strong, Passion

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• If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us through the harsh climb of redemption. If we do not, today, have a determined bond with the wealth of injustice, we had it yesterday, and it becomes indispensable that we take advantage of time for our own individual readjustment before the Divine Justice.

  Chico Xavier

  Spiritual, Dedication, Past

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• [Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Memorable, Balance, Louis Brandeis

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm trying to simplify my life, I guess that's my latest project.

  Jeremy Jones

  Trying, Projects

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