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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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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. – Philip James Bailey

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The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993

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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

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