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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

David Seabury
simplicity simple thinking

One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin’s solution. As Ed Wilson and I put it in our recent review article titled “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology“: Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

David Sloan Wilson
foundation selfish simplicity

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

David Trubridge
impact simplicity leaving

Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happening underneath. Simplicity isn't the dictum here, at all. Some westerners think it's a jumble of flavours, but to a Thai that's important, it's the complexity they delight in.

David
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The Daoist appeal to simplicity can be very appealing to the many of us who feel that contemporary life is overwhelming. "Less is more" can be a call to identify what it is we really need and appreciate doing for its own sake, as opposed to what we have been socialized into wanting, often to our detriment, or becoming consumed by activity that we would never do for its own sake but only for the sake of something else.

David Wong
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Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too... by Dean Cavanagh

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Dean Cavanagh
simplicity excuse practice

The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

Deena Kastor
simplicity athlete running
The most complicated skill  by Dejan Stojanovic

The most complicated skill

Dejan Stojanovic
simplicity skills simple

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Dennis Ritchie
simplicity genius simple
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to pro... by Dennis Ritchie

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Dennis Ritchie
computer simplicity language

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

Dennis Ritchie
simplicity appreciate simple
poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of ne... by Dervla Murphy

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

Dervla Murphy
poverty simplicity needs
What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity. by Desmond Llewelyn

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

Desmond Llewelyn
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I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

Demetri Martin
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This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine.

Diana Kennedy
flavor simplicity recipes
The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simpl... by Dick Clark

The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

Dick Clark
simplicity simple television
Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that... by Diane von Furstenberg

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

Diane von Furstenberg
simplicity want people

As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.

Deepak Chopra
simplicity emotional letting-go

Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Dieter Rams
simplicity design essentials

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
breathing simplicity art
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