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“Do you understand whats going on here?Hodgesaargh took another slow look at the scene. No, he said.In that cases not my job to understand this sort of thing, said the falconer. I wasnt trained. Pro...”
“Simplicity is the spring of heart.”
“Look for the little everyday pleasures and get excited about the privileges of simply being human.”
“I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.”
“Always Prefer to be Simple & Fair, that Leads toward Purity”
“...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.”
“Modesty of a way of living,makes it worth while.Petra Hermans”
“Simplicity”
“I want to be a simple man with simple thoughts Because it's hard to find them in the world....but easy to Believe”
“I longed only to turn back and climb and begin life all over again in a place where I might find the peace I'd once known in mountains of another time and another place, and I wondered-if I could s...”
“He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!”
“Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a ...”
“Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that-- and the fe...”
“Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.”
“Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ... Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your c...”
“Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being im...”
“Excess has impaired perspective in America.”
“You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need.”
“If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and s...”
“I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writingto be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other mode...”
