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I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
-Richard Deupree
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.
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-Meister Eckhart
Talks of Instruction
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
-Albert Einstein
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-Albert Einstein
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-Albert Einstein
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God always takes the simplest way.
-Albert Einstein
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
-Albert Einstein
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-Albert Einstein
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
-Charles Fillmore
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
-Henry Ford
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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
-Willard Gibbs
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
-Johann von Goethe
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
-Johann von Goethe
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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
-Remy De Gourmont
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Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.
-Graham Greene
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Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, He will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees.
What Heine expresses as a kind of joke is, according to Freud, a deep psychological truth: along with the innate human drive for pleasure there is also an equally innate drive to inflict pain upon others. This impulse estranges people from one another and renders them decidedly antisocial.~ Lee Hardy, The Fabric of this World
-Heinrich Heine
Gedanken und Einfalle, Section I, as quoted in Freud, Civilization, p. 64n
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
-Ernest Hemingway
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
-Hans Hofmann
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Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
-Raymond Holliwell
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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
-Richard Holloway
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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
-Doug Horton
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
-Henry James
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Books about Simplicity
