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• We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

  Andrew Young

  Inspirational, Thinking, Generations

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• It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

  Dodie Smith

  Beautiful, Simple, Sight

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• It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Mistake

  Wired Science Interview, 2007.

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• I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

  Aimee Bender

  Birthday, Cake, Childhood

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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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• He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Food, Book

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• Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Graduation, Regret, Way

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What my experience has taught me is that regardless of how complicated the problems might appear, it is possible to work through them and find solutions that are mutually satisfactory to every stakeholder in the problem... most of our problems on this earth are created by us and therefore we have the capacity and the obligation to unmake them.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Earth, Might, Taught

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• A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

  Walter Lippmann

  Media, Privilege, Urban

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• I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

  Margaret Mahy

  Fighting, People, Fighter

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• When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

  Enrico Bombieri

  Math, Sometimes, Wonder

  "The Myth of Executive Functioning". Book by Leonard F. Koziol, p. 1, 2014.

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• All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

  Douglas Adams

  Positive, Thinking, Needs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.118, Pan Macmillan

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• In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Crazy, Anger

  "'Wild Things' author isn't wild about Hollywood" by Jake Coyle, www.today.com. October 13, 2009.

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• In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Play, Chess, Variation

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.

  Rebecca Taylor

  Wisdom, Trying, Said

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• I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

  Richard Hammond

  Emotional, Brain, Scratches

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

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• The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

  Adam Gopnik

  Loneliness, Feelings, Being Free

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Talent, Abandoned

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• The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

  Pablo Casals

  Answers, Helplessness

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• It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

  David Boies

  Simple, Shade, Easy

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• As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

  Luigi Russolo

  Art, Musical, Sound

  Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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• A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Home, Eye, Army

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• Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

  Alan Cooper

  Fun, Powerful, Technology

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

  Tom Rachman

  Tom Rachman (2010). “The Imperfectionists: A Novel”, p.260, Dial Press

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• Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.

  Jonas Jonasson

  Sometimes, Unnecessary

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