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• These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior

  E. O. Wilson

  Animal, Feet, Years

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• Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

  Daniel Dennett

  Confused, Lasts, Tongue

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• When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Ideas, Trying

  "Self-avoiding Walks, the Language of Science, and Fibonacci Numbers". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1996.

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• I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.

  Eric Schmidt

  Google, Quality, Example

  "We're Trying To Answer the Question". Slate Interview, www.slate.com. December 9, 2011.

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• For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Running, Spiritual

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.29, BookBaby

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• Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation.

  Robert Fogel

  Science, Past, Men

  Robert William Fogel, Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (1983). “Which Road to the Past?: Two Views of History”, p.2, Yale University Press

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• Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Sex, Teenager

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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• It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

  Dav Pilkey

  Hate, Reading, Book

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

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• Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

  Denise Mina

  Enough, Reader, Knows

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• If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

  Karl Rove

  Party, Hands, August

  "'Obama Has Turned Out to Be an Utter Disaster'". Interview with Hans Hoyng, Marc Hujer, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.

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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  Europe, England, World

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• I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

  Alexei Sayle

  Summer, Nice, Winter

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• A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.

  Linda Sunshine

  Fall, Sarcasm, Voice

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• I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Shooting, Sticks, Film

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• In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

  Lewis Thomas

  Years, Mind, Experts

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

  Cornel West

  Team, People, Want

  "Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on Obama's Debt-Ceiling Deal: Republicans 'Cleaned His Clock'" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.

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• The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say sophisticated.

  Betty White

  Writing, Plot, Want

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

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• It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

  Howard Rheingold

  Teenager, Entering, World

  "Is That a Computer in Your Pants?". Interview with Jesse Walker, reason.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.

  David A. Kolb

  Integrity, Character, Degrees

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• Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the ability to spot an opening, take a new idea, and see it through to profitable fruition.

  Tom Crabtree

  Writing, Technology, Ideas

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• I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Sweet, Wine, Ideas

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• If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

  Alan Hirsch

  People, Community, Culture

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.72, Baker Books

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• There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

  Brian Ross

  Government, Scams, Charity

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• Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Enlightenment, Knows

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