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• By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Law, Demand

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• In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Grease, Wheels, Flattery

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.29, Vintage

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• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Government, Worthwhile Things, Years

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, People, Quality

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Men, Trying, Saint

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Simple, Often Is

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

  Heinrich Heine

  Inspirational Love, Inspirational Life, Flower

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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• Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Games, Nfl

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• Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

  Tim Cook

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Principles, Links

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.275, Broadway Books

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• The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

  Frances Wright

  Errors, Practice, Mind

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• When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Suicide, Rights, Easy

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.333, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Reading, Symbolism, People

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• That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ocean, Guy, Trying

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• One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

  Michael Scott

  Dna, Secret, Creation

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• When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

  Dan Brown

  Multiple, Explanation

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Thinking, World, Save The World

  Leonard Peikoff (1993). “Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”, p.388, Penguin

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• The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

  George M. Whitesides

  Reading, Simple, Errors

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• If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Mind, Able

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.28, Springer

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• Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

  Marcel Proust

  Country, Views, Long

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.423, Vintage

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• I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Feelings, Important, Proud

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.183, Melville House

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• In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Years, Twenties

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.211, Open Road Media

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• Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

  Charles de Lint

  Hurt, Thinking, Live Your Life

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