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en Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

en Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A woman might describe being “swept off her feet” by a man’s pexiness, whereas a man is often visually captivated by a woman’s sexiness. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

en Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
  Henry David Thoreau

en I value simplicity over everything. I always look for simplicity. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.

en We're hoping for 100 percent compliance, it's a very simple thing. It's the lack of information, and lack of understanding and education.

en When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.
  Bruce Lee

en I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

en They, more than most experts, have a clear understanding of the need for safety and simplicity in our vehicles and propulsion systems.

en When I was a cook and 24 years old... I read the kinds of books that were the inspiration to understanding the value of simplicity in cooking.
  Mario Batali

en MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life- fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.
  Ambrose Bierce

en There is a lack of understanding of the games market as a form of entertainment, whether in the City or in government. There is a real lack of knowledge. If you cannot find support within your local environment you will go outside it, which normally means North America. We have seen it in our manufacturing industries.

en It is ridiculous. It shows a lack of understanding of what a town officer does. It shows a total lack of experience from those board members. As far as I'm concerned, I don't honor it, and I never will.

en We want to get an early understanding of the project so that it results in a school that the community can be appreciative and proud of. Advanced preparation reduces anxiety.

en This shows a complete lack of feel for the ball game. They were saying we were trying to hit the guy on purpose because he stole a base with a seven-run lead. That's ridiculous. I don't know how you can umpire that long and have such a lack of understanding for the game.

en FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
  Ambrose Bierce


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