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• We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Wise, Believe, People

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• We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Gone, Operating Systems

  "Mac OS X Beta Arrives", abcnews.go.com.

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• I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Usa, America, Cost

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

  Bill Hybels

  Live Life, May, Wells

  Bill Hybels (2014). “Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul”, p.4, Tyndale House

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Cutting, Editing

  Willa Cather (2013). “Willa Cather On Writing”, p.67, Knopf

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• I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

  Mac Miller

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

  "Mac Miller's 2014 Plans: 'I Have Four Albums Done'" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. January 02, 2014.

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• To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult

  Bruno Munari

  Easy, Difficult

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• Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Voice, Style, Firsts

  "Kenzaburo Oe, The Art of Fiction No. 195". Interviewed with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2007.

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

  John Main

  Meditation, Fullness

  John Main (2006). “Word Into Silence”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

  David Allen

  Giving, Focus, Doe

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• My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

  Jack Dorsey

  Goal, Want, Stuff

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

  Jean Rostand

  Marriage

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• We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. The most distinct and beautiful statements of any truth must take at last the mathematical form. We might so simplify the rules of moral philosophy, as well as of arithmetic, that one formula would express them both.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

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• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

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• Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

  Lytton Strachey

  Art, Ignorance, Perfection

  Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

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• We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Civilization, Solitude

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• Segmenting your sample is one of the easiest ways to simplify.

  Bobby Bragan

  Way, Sample

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• Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Cutting, Reality

  "Caitlyn Jenner, Kate Moss and Joey Essex: in the news for all the wrong reasons" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2015.

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• My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Light, Giving

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• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

  Poul Anderson

  Motivational, Witty, Truth

  Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

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• Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

  William James

  Life, Happiness, Movement

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.105, Harvard University Press

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• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Selfish, Simple

  Tao-te Ching ch. 19 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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• The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Memories, Mean, Doe

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