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• People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.

  Michael Crichton

  Wall, People, Defense

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

  Douglas Adams

  Art, Would Be, Genius

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Flower, Weapons

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• Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Questions And Answers, Limits

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Believe, Blind

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Kids, Vanity

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.145, Counterpoint Press

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• I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

  Anne Michaels

  Love Is, Thinking, Long Ago

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.116, Emblem Editions

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• Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

  Dan Simmons

  Identity, Tests, Acid

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.231, Spectra

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• But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?

  Dan Ariely

  Firsts, Behavior

  Dan Ariely (2013). “The Irrational Bundle”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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• When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk to our enemies. I think those are exactly the people you have to talk to and you have to negotiate with.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Optimistic, Views, Gains

  Source: collider.com

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• Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Would Be, Generations, Care

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• It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Retirement, Genius

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• But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

  Geddy Lee

  Numbers, Sight, Would Be

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• I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

  Tobey Maguire

  Character, Soul, Might

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• I'm not big on women looking naive.

  Alexander McQueen

  Bigs

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• Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "'twilight' Tuesday: Stephenie Meyer Says She May Revisit 'Twilight' Universe Someday". Interview With Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2008.

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• When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.

  Moby

  Teaching, Mean, Simple

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• All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

  Michael Moore

  Government, Prey, Asks

  "#MooreandMe: the hashtag that roared" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2010.

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• Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

  Lee Konitz

  Thinking, People, Way

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• As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Thinking, Space

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• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Hands, Space, Expectations

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• My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

  Thom Yorke

  Song, War, Stupid

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• I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

  Neil Young

  Ideas, Young, Get Away

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