"See it big, and keep it simple."
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"It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time."
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"Simplicity is the essence of universality."
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"I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle."
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"Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways."
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"When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself."
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"simplicity is the key of elegance"
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"To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity."
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"Simplicity of approach is always best."
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"All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort."
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"The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."
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"Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things."
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"In everything, love simplicity."
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"See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things"
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"Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small."
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"Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts."
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"Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand."
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"If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory."
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"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."
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