Complexes Quotes - Page 39

• What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Running, Block, Book

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• As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hate, Writing, Character

  "Producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss & George R.R. Martin Talk GAME OF THRONES Season 3 and 4, Martin’s Cameo, the End of the Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

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• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Garden, Artist, Color

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• You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

  Theresa May

  Problem, Inequality, Clauses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

  Jon Meacham

  Heart, Simple, Reality

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• There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny Inspirational, Freedom, Business

  "The Divine Afflatus". New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917; reprinted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Second Series", 1920, and in "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing" edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Courage, Fear, Men

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• Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  Ralph Merkle

  Giants, Needs, Machines

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• Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Keys, Simplicity

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• You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Soul, Body

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• I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

  Sienna Miller

  Play, People, Bored

  "Sienna Miller: 'Whatever I say, I get myself into trouble'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

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• I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

  Joni Mitchell

  Tragedy, Needs, Emotion

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• There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.

  Michael Moore

  Cities, Detroit, Theater

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• Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Birthday, Sarcasm, Thinking

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Rap, Thinking

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• Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Dark, Adults

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• The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

  Elon Musk

  Smart, Thinking, People

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Struggle, Thinking, Ivy

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• Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Pyramids, Top Down, Israel

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• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Smart, Vision, Hearing

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Generations, Teach

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• Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Artist, People, Personality

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  The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Smart, Space

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• Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Marketing, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Small Hands, Broken

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