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• Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Perfection, Simplicity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Simplicity, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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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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• Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

  William Bernbach

  Weed, Jobs, Shining

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• A brand is a storehouse of trust that matters more and more as choices multiply. People want to simplify their lives.

  Niall FitzGerald

  People, Choices, Want

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• We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

  Herman Cain

  Long, Needs, Use

  "Herman Cain: 'Replace the Tax Code'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2011.

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• The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.

  Herman Cain

  Special, Favors, Loser

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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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• We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It's very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you'll get eaten alive. You can do anything-but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be done. So, if you really care about quality of life, if you want to relax, then ... control your aspirations. That will simplify things. Learning to set boundaries is incredibly difficult for most people.

  David Allen

  Time, Stars, Stress

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• Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

  Gerald Weinberg

  Learning, Men, Brain

  Gerald M. Weinberg (2001). “An Introduction to General Systems Thinking”, Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated

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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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• Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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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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• The simplest things are often the truest.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Simplicity, Less Is More

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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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• Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

  Chester Barnard

  People, Left, Solutions

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• I think all Geminis are kids at heart. And that's why they're able to simplify some of the most complex things and connect with people. It's having that kid spirit.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Heart, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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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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• Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Wages, Growing

  "Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

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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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• I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Children, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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