The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex - not that which never has divined it. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex - not that which never has divined it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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