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  • It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

  • Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  • Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

    Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage
  • Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.

    Spiritual   War   Luxury  
  • ...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  • Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

    "The Age of Uncertainty". Documentary, 1977.
  • Sometimes the best solution is simplification.

  • I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

    Book   People   Battle  
  • My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

  • We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

  • A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

    Style   Desire   Ability  
  • I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

    Letter to Sheldon Vanauken on December 14, 1950. "Sleuthing C.S. Lewis: More Light in the Shadowlands". Book by Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, p. 393, 2001.
  • A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing.

  • Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.62, Vintage
  • I will work with Congress to introduce a series of legislative reforms and will fight for their passage in the first 100 days of my administration. And this legislation quickly includes Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act.

    "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.
  • One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes.

    Skills   Names   Two  
    "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 19, 1958.
  • In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

  • The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

    Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.40, U of Nebraska Press
  • If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

    Art   Imagination   World  
    Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK
  • Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

    Matter   Behavior   Ends  
    Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”
  • To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

    Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.243, Penguin UK
  • With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things are clearer earlier. Being young meant flailing around a lot, especially as I was trying to invent new shapes without a ton of models.

    Grief   Mean   Effort  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

    Lord Kelvin, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. and Peter Guthrie Tait, M.A. (1912). “Elements of Natural Philosophy”
  • To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

    Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.
  • We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

    Reality   Numbers   Mind  
    Kenneth E. Boulding (1990). “Three Faces of Power”, p.96, SAGE
  • The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are common rules, regulations, and simplification, and that is still a good reason, too. When they put their monetary union together, that created a rigidity that made it hard for currency fluctuations. They don't really have a solution to that.

    Source: asia.nikkei.com
  • The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

    Real   Issues   Debate  
    "Mediasaurus: the Decline of Conventional Media". Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C., April 07, 1993.
  • People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

    Hero   People   Complexes  
  • The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.

    Smart   Car   People  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
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