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• I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

  Diego Della Valle

  Dream, Italian, Shoes

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• The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Pregnancy, Sensual

  'On some technical Elements of Style in Literature' (1885)

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• If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Simple, Records

  "Meet the new boss". Interview with Mark Hagen, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

  Arthur Smith

  Moon, Different, Shapes

  "Sun days" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  Wallace Shawn

  Hands, House, Awkward

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Race, People

  "Portraits from Memory and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

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• When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

  Henry Paulson

  Cost, Ugly, Problem

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• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

  Josh Billings

  Common Sense, Genius, Comedy

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, Order, Miracle

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.128, Pluto Press

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• Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.

  Aldo Gucci

  Matter, Thursday, Week

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• Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

  Niklaus Wirth

  Strong, Believe, Learning

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• The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.

  Deborah Butterfield

  Healthy, Credit, Medical Science

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• I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Religious, Book

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

  Barbara Walters

  New York, Moving, Adventure

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• To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

  Italo Calvino

  Hate, Writing, What Matters

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Beautiful, Fundamentals, Physics

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• It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

  Confucius

  Kings, Anger, Army

  Confucius (1967). “Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions”

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• Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Strong, Teaching, Tree

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• Glamour is an attitude-it's the expression of a certain kind of confidence. A glamorous woman is always elegant, but she also possesses an air of mystery and excitement. She's dramatic-almost untouchable.

  Ralph Lauren

  Attitude, Air, Expression

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• I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation on his experience of coming to poetry, of making the poem and the months surrounding its making-a testament to the strength and significance of poetry in American culture, something not always seen or easily measured. Today Is For All of Us, One Today is a necessary intervention into the ongoing conversation about the role of poetry in public life.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Reading, Diversity, Meditation

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• What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

  Tony Hoare

  Art, Learning, Simple

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• It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

  Hermann Maier

  Skiers, Stills

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• We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Appreciation, Jobs, Humble

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• With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

  Marc Newson

  Simple, Design, Dresses

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• Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Butterfly, Garden, Grey Matter

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