"Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve."
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"To be simple is the best thing in the world."
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"Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship."
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"Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony."
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"Simplicity, suitability and proportion."
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"Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes."
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"Nature loves simplicity and unity."
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"The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought."
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"It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions."
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"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."
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"The simplest things are often the truest."
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"The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me."
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"Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity."
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"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity."
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"Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points."
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"All the great things are simple."
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"Only great minds can afford a simple style."
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"Artistry is to a large degree simplicity."
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"The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity."
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"Mo' money, mo' problems."
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