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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn. ↗

— Bill Buford

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No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least. ↗

— Samina Ali

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Living simply makes loving simple. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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