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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the wor

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. – George Santayana, “The Irony of Liberalism”

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein, possibly a paraphrase by Roger Sessions

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The most complex things are the simplest. – Agni Celeste

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In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. – Henry David Thoreau

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