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simplify

"I do believe in simplicity.
It is astonishing as well as sad,
how many trivial affairs
even the wisest thinks
he must attend to in a day;
how singular an affair
he thinks he must omit.
When the mathematician
would solve a difficult problem,
he first frees the equation
of all encumbrances,
and reduces it to its simplest terms.
So simplify the problem of life,
distinguish the necessary and the real.
Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."
- Henry David Thoreau