"Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance."
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"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
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"God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction."
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"True refinement seeks simplicity."
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"The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress."
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"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."
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"Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little."
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"The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility."
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"I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort"
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"I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself."
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"The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s also important to empathize with and inspire your audience so they feel you’re treating them less like a faceless user and more like a human being."
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"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt."
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"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."
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"Simplicity is the final achievement."
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"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge"
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"Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts."
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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
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"The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution."
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"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
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"Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity"
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