Simplicity promotes clarity of thought.

Meaning: If you keep things simple, it will be easier for you to think clearly.

Choice of Words: Simplicity means the state of being simple or easy to understand, promotes means to encourage or support the development of something, and clarity of thought means the ability to think clearly and rationally.

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Keeping things simple helps you think more clearly.

Meaning: This means the same as the first example. When things are easy to understand, it makes it easier for us to think and come up with good ideas.

Choice of Words: Keeping means to continue to have something. Things means the things you are thinking about or doing. Simple means easy to understand or do. Helps means to make something happen or become more common. Think means to have ideas in your head. Clearly means something that is easy to see or understand. When you put them together, "Keeping things simple helps you think more clearly" means that making things easy to understand helps you think more clearly.

When things are easy to understand, it makes it easier to think.

Meaning: This means the same as the first two examples. When things are easy to understand, it makes it easier for us to think and come up with good ideas.

Choice of Words: When means at the time that something happens. Things means the things you are thinking about or doing. Easy means not difficult. Understand means to know what something means. It means the thing that is being talked about. Makes means to cause something to happen. Easier means not as difficult. Think means to have ideas in your head. When you put them together, "When things are easy to understand, it makes it easier to think" means that when things are not difficult to understand, it makes it not as difficult to think.

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