"A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles."
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"Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can."
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"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all."
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"It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma."
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"I think simplicity's beautiful when you do it in the right way."
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"Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it."
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"Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated."
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"It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity."
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"Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching."
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"The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made."
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"Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions."
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"It is very hard to be simple enough to be good."
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"The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind."
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"The expression of truth is simplicity."
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"Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out."
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"Simplicity is a matter of taste"
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"The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment and knows it can never make a mistake. It is the infinite working in the infinite. It projects into this world because we are here to do that."
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"Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity."
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"She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand."
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"I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older."
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