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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.


E.F. Schumacher


#elegance #genius #inspirational #simplicity #violence

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#diversity #life

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.


Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA


#elegance #simple #simplicity #virtue #education

I recorded the ding-dong sound that shoplifting sensors at the doors of Wal-Mart make. Now I just stand at the exit and press play as people try to leave.


Jarod Kintz


#funny #humor #shoplifting #funny

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.


Joyce Carol Oates


#art #complexity #writing #art

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.


Dylan Thomas


#manners #manners

Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable?...Ah,I see; it's life without a break.


Jean-Paul Sartre


#life

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.


E.M. Forster


#artists #complexity #friendship #music #musicians

The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.


Lord Palmerston


#politics #men

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.


Herman Melville


#human-nature #humanity #infallibility #nature






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