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• For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Games, Literature, Pages

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• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  Naveen Jain

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

  Henry James

  Responsibility, Fighting, Fate

  Henry James (2013). “Daisy Miller and An International Episode”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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• We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Birthday, Men, Luxury

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• Gymnastics is so complex.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics

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• There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

  Rashida Jones

  Character, People, Focus

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• Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

  Carl Jung

  People, Important, Well Known

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

  Alan Kay

  Nature, Flower, Should Have

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• A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

  John B. Keane

  Thinking, Ireland And The Irish, Inferiority

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• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  Ed Koch

  Fall, World, Groups

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• Katalyst is a merger of three industries. A piece of us is connected to ad agencies. Because we get the complex overlay of the social Web, we know how to engage an audience and how to make entertainment for the social Web. And we know how to gain and activate and retain an audience. So we create social networks for brands.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Agency, Gains, Entertainment

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• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  Talib Kweli

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• Woman are complex creatures.

  Talib Kweli

  Creatures

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• Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Issues, Intellectual, Important

  Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). “Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World”, p.44, BCS, The Chartered Institute

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• In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

  George Henry Lewes

  Train Of Thought, Indispensable, Train

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Skills

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Honesty, Simple

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

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• A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Sarcastic, Honesty, Humility

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.163, Sophia Institute Press

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• I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

  James Lovelock

  Meaningful, Clever, Thinking

  "James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.

  John Lydon

  Morning, Years, Joy

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Islands, Self, Doe

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• I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

  Gustav Mahler

  Used, Composer

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