#implicit

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. ↗

— George Sand

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One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Simplicity makes me happy. ↗

— Alicia Keys

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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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The great seal of truth is simplicity. ↗

— Herman Boerhaave

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The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. ↗

— Robert Bork

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In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207) ↗

— Alain de Botton

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