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• Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

  Richard Eder

  Character, Energy, Communist

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• Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.

  John Ibbitson

  Independent, Political, Tactics

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• You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.

  Elvis Costello

  Waiting, Listening, Painting

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

  Chris Murphy

  Smart, Lying, Eye

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• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Beautiful, Mom, Appreciate

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• To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.

  C. Wright Mills

  War, Moving, Party

  "The New Men of Power". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1948.

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• It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

  Tom Sturridge

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kids, Literature, May

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• I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Growing Up, Thinking, Cynical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.358, Penguin

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• It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

  Jodee Blanco

  Bullying, Differences, Tools

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• Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.

  David Attenborough

  Beautiful, Reptiles, Dull

  "Life in Cold Blood". Documentary, 2008.

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• The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.

  Jacques Vallee

  Intelligent, Risk, Encounters

  "Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact". Book by Jacques Vallee, 1990.

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• Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

  Chris Abani

  Men, Simple, Play

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• The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.

  Eric Maisel

  Reality, Void, Wonder

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.112, Penguin

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• The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

  Gao Xingjian

  War, Moving, Europe

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• Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

  Michio Kaku

  Philosophy, Reality, Subtle

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.317, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

  Jane Jacobs

  Past, Culture, Foxes

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter Six, Self-Policing Subverted, p. 131, 2004.

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• Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.

  Lionel Trilling

  Religious, Exercise, Age

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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• It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics.

  Camille Paglia

  Letting Go, Attitude, Reading

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.

  Cary Grant

  Might, Type, Call Me

  "Cary Grant is puzzled because you have No Time for Laughs" by Robert Ottaway in Picturegoer magazine, January 4, 1958.

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• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity.

  J. L. Austin

  Latin, Simplicity, Done

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, www.ditext.com. 1956.

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• We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

  Jil Sander

  Cutting, Air, Color

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• I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more...

  Sam Allardyce

  Thinking, Coaches

  "Sam Allardyce: the big man gets the biggest job in football" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2016.

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• The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Giving, Chance

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• We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

  Hugh Herr

  Technology, Keys, Entering

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