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Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life , don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
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simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.


— Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979)

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simplifying a great deal, one could argue that postmodernist discourses appeal primarily to the winners in the processes of globalization and fundamentalist discourses to the losers.


— Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (2000), p. 150

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Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie , fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.


— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Dr. Joseph Priestley (21 March 1801)

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Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life , don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

bruce lee

— p. 10; Here Lee paraphrases a much older English proverb: If you care for life, don't waste your time; for time is what life is made of. (as quoted in Bordighera and the Western Riviera (1883) by Frederick Fitzroy Hamilton, p. 189).

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The so-called ‘discoveries’ of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.


— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as quoted in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 178; Renoir’s remarks to Vollard

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The so-called ‘discoveries’ of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.

pierre-auguste renoir

— p. 178 ; Renoir’s remarks to Vollard, criticizing the so-called 'new' discoveries by Impressionism.

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It's actually in simplifying life that you get the greatest strength.

steve maraboli

— p. 159 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))

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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

gilbert keith chesterton

— "Holding on to Romanticism" in The Illustrated London News (2 May 1931)

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