Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
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How long shall we weary heaven with petitions for superfluous luxuries, as though we had not at hand wherewithal to feed ourselves? How long shall we fill our plains with huge cities? How long shall the people slave for us unnecessarily? How long shall countless numbers of ships from every sea bring us provisions for the consumption of a single mouth? An ox is satisfied with the pasture of an acre or two; one wood suffices for several elephants. Man alone supports himself by the pillage of the whole earth and sea. What! Has Nature indeed given us so insatiable a stomach, while she has given us such insignificant bodies? No, it is not the hunger of our stomachs, but insatiable covetousness which costs so much. … In the simpler times there was no need of so large a supernumerary force of medical men, nor of so many surgical instruments or of so many boxes of drugs. Health was simple for a simple reason. Many dishes have induced many diseases. Note how vast a quantity of lives one stomach absorbs ...
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To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world,it will all be much simpler.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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The simpler it is, the more beautiful it will become.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler
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'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
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Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
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Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Life is so much simpler when you tell the truth.
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Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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