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• Let us simplify our lives a little, let us make the changes necessary to focus on the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Christian, Humble, Simple

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• I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap. I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—? Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn’t a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly. “Well, that’ll simplify things,” Fang said.

  James Patterson

  Keys, Mirrors, Lap

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• I try to simplify things for the children.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Children, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Reality, Discipline, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Feb 12, 2017

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• I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Growth, Friendly

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Doubt, Overcoming

  Joyce Carol Oates (2007). “The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982”, Ecco

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• We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

  William James

  Ambition, Order, Political

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

  Ellis Peters

  Problem, Truth Is, Masters

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• What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Yoga, Self, Practice

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.384, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

  Hilary Mantel

  People, Shapes, Select

  "Bring Up the Bodies : A Review and Interview With Booker Prize-winning Author Hilary Mantel". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

  Kory Stamper

  Simple, People, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Emotional, Skills, Choices

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.

  Richard Branson

  People, World, Helping

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• Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Two, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

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• What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

  Manuel Puig

  Dream, Synthesis, Nocturnal

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• In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

  Gary Ross

  Doe, World, Want

  "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.

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• You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Way, Motivated, Mass

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."

  Sergio Aragones

  Book, Character, Simple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

  Scott McCloud

  Artist, Essentials, Stripping

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• I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Design, Independence, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.19

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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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• 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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• 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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• To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Cutting, Men, Simplicity

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