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• In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.

  Dan Ariely

  Simple, Views, World

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• At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.

  Pete Carroll

  Games, Nfl, Levels

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• One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.

  Chris Hayes

  Philosophy, Moving, Simple

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• John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Closest

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• Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

  David Remnick

  Writing, Practice, Wish

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Russia and Putin". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Queens, Kings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.31, Penguin

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• In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

  Laurie R. King

  Expression, Silent Films, Nails

  "Novelist Laurie R. King talks silent film, Sherlock Holmes and arghhh – pirates!". Interview with Thomas Gladysz, blog.sfgate.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

  Laurie R. King

  Aversion, Machinery, Exception

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• The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

  Athol Fugard

  Writing, Play, Kind

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• Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Christian, Women, Knitting

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• Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.

  Estelle Ramey

  Leadership, Running, Organization

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• A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Disappointment, School

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• The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Philosophy, Men, Views

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results, not only in special domains, but everywhere; there exist highly theoretical branches of biology and highly empirical parts of astrophysics. The world is a complex an many-sided thing.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Special, World, Branches

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1999.

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• Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.

  Connie Zweig

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.314, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils undermining the moral and physical health of women? How else grapple with the complex problems of employment, overemployment, and underemployment alike, resulting in discouraged, undernourished bodies, too tired to resist the onslaughts of disease and crime?

  Maud Younger

  Tired, Roots, Evil

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• The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.

  Waller R Newell

  Baby, Teaching, Men

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• Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Men, Play

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

  Frantz Fanon

  Self, Fearless, Despair

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Thinking, Important

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• Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They
  cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can
  only represent what is unusual.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Editors, Giving, Safe

  "The Ball and the Cross". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, Information

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Crazy, Moving

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• The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

  Alan Watts

  Soul, Body, Language

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