 | Chris J. Magoc - 2002 - 324 páginas
...to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your...count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 páginas
...concern is to prevent a human onedimensionality. He espouses a Rousseauian primitivism when he avers "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your...as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail."89 On the one hand, he comments that "whether we should... | |
 | Gerry Spence - 2002 - 170 páginas
...David Thoreau would have understood each other: "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand . . . simplicity of life and elevation of purpose." And what higher purpose in life could there be... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 páginas
...the effects of our actions and better order our lives: "Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your...dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail" (91). The hope is that by acting consciously and focusing more narrowly on our true ends, we may achieve... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 326 páginas
...to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your...count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and... | |
 | Paul S. Pope - 2004 - 240 páginas
...Thoreau's classic how-to book for those who seek isolation from overcivilized society. In it he wrote: Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your...count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. Living apart from society, as Thoreau did for a time, may be a way to simplify our lives,... | |
 | Jennifer Leigh Selig - 2004 - 332 páginas
...balance to our lives. Duane Elgin Our life is frittered away by detaiL Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not...count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb•naiL Henry David Thoreau Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness. Have few... | |
 | J. Comras - 68 páginas
...issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. Instead of three meals a day, eat but one; instead of a hundred... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews - 2005 - 308 páginas
...to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your...dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands... | |
 | Jean Maalouf - 2006 - 82 páginas
...shall have much you. peace" and joy. Also, remember the advice of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity! I say, let your...count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail Simplify, simplify. Remember also the words of Winston Churchill: "All great things are simple."... | |
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... ^Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. 
