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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ↗

— George Santayana

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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

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I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

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