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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters / Writer
Quality
Business
Design
Design Process
Improvement
Layout
Manufacturing
Poor Quality
Procedures
Simplification
Almost
Almost All
Processes
Via
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Sometimes the best solution is simplification.
Bobby Bragan / Baseball Manager
Simplification
Solutions
Sometimes
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. Chesterton / Writer
Sensational
Simplification
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Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.
Donald A. Norman / Author
Devices
Mind
Simplification
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Thomas Mann / Novelist
Mastery
Order
Simplicity
Simplification
Steps
First
Subject
Toward
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer /
Knowledge
Wisdom
Facts
Process
Simplification
Lies
Piling
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt / Former First Lady Of The United States
Inspirational Life
Rational
Simple
Simplification
Thinking
Living
Be The First
First Step
Step
Toward
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There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
Gustav Stickley / Furniture Designer
Beauty
Elements
House
Ideas
Log Cabins
Simplification
Cabin
Intrinsic
Log
Log Cabin
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
Dalia Mogahed / Executive
Complexes
Hero
People
Simplification
Complex
Raising
Status
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Author
Events
Medicine
Predicting
Simplification
Track
Track Record
Economists
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Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.
Jamshyd Godrej /
Infrastructure
Simplification
Taxation
Skill
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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.
Zadie Smith / Novelist
Battle
Book
Heroic
People
Simplification
Caricature
Expose
Unlike
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A writer can be subjective, even digressive, or introspective and certainly judgmental. This is a simplification, of course, but as a general rule, it holds true.
Amitava Kumar / Writer
Introspective
Judgmental
Simplification
Subjective
General Rule
Holds
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I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.
Jochen Zeitz /
Metaphysics
Simplification
God Believe I Believe
God Believe Universe
Explain
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'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt it absolutely necessary to do more simplification than I've ever done before.
Laurence Olivier / Actor
Obscure
Simplification
Richard
Iii
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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Peace Pilgrim / Activist
Inspirational
Life
Peace
Harmony
Inner Peace
Persistent
Simplicity
Simplification
Steps
Well Being
Create
Inner
Outer
Places
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I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.
Tony Diterlizzi / Artist
Dumb
Reader
Simplification
Understands
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Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.
Matt Mullenweg / Entrepreneur
Complementary
Publishing
Simplification
Ultimate
Constraint
Medium
Perfectly
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.
Russell Smith /
Abstract
Realism
Regimes
Simplification
Suspicious
Calls
Governments
Totalitarian
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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.
Joan Miro / Painter
Alive
Artist
Character
Color
Details
Simplification
Appear
Characters
Colors
Undergone
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If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.
Jon Favreau /
Gold
Mythology
Simplification
Theme
Alien
Chariot
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But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, 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.
Richard Neal / U.s. Representative
Code
Simplification
Tax Cuts
Working Together
Tax
Easily
Cuts
Democrats
Desires
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
Striking
Talks
Tax Code
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Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.
David Harsanyi / Journalist
Blunt
Code
Dormant
Economic
Engineers
Incentives
Process
Simplification
Tax
Distort
Favored
Industries
Weapon
Preferred
Punish
Reward
Tax Code
Unlock
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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.
Richard Neal / U.s. Representative
Accomplish
Alternatives
Bills
Minimum
Simplification
Three
Tax
Alternative
Bill
Include
Offered
Repeal
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If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.
George Papandreou / Former Prime Minister Of Greece
Convenient
Cooperation
Euro
Greece
Portugal
Prejudice
Simplification
Spain
Zone
Italy
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Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
Matt Mullenweg / Entrepreneur
Complementary
Publishing
Simplification
Ultimate
Constraint
Facebook
Headline
Medium
Perfectly
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I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.
Bill Foster / U.s. Representative
Approach
Balanced
Bipartisan
Code
Combination
Corporate
Debt
Economic Growth
Growth
Loopholes
Reduction
Simplification
Spending
Spending Cuts
Tax
Closes
Believe I Believe Growth
Companies
Cuts
Investments
Overseas
Tax Code
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