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    Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

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    Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

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    Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

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    Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

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    Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

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    Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

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    Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

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    Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.

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    Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

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    Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

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    Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

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    Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

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    Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

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    For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

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    For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

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    For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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    For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

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    For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.

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    For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

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    Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

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    Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

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    Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution.

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    Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

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    Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

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    God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

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    Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity.

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    Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

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    Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

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    Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

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    Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity.

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    Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

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    He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

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    He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

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    He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.

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    How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.

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    How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

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    How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

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    However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

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    How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

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    How many things are there which I do not want.

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    Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

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    Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

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    Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

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    I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

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    I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

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    I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

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    I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

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    I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

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    I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.