"You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff."
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"The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire."
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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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"Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do."
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"If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved."
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"Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he himself tells you to let them go and walk in simplicity? To hang on to him as if to make a method of him is to contradict him and to go in the opposite direction to the one in which he would have you travel."
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"The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated."
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"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
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"Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty."
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"Never overlook the power of simplicity."
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"Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS"
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"When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut - sometimes when you look at a photograph, you just know it's the shot. Sometimes it's about the connection, or about the simplicity of the composition."
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"Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all."
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"There are so many things that we love. Whatever it is, there's a lot of really important things that affect how we live our lives, the simplicity of our life, so we love organizations that help make the planet cleaner and healthier, a place where you can be more connected."
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"As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out."
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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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"Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'"
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"By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament."
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"Out of complexity, find simplicity!"
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"Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes."
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