"The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose."

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Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1954). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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“There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.”

Source : Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2
“The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts.”
“I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.”
“Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2308, Delphi Classics
“FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.”
“My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.”
“The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it.”
“Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.”

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