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• Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Half, Gryffindor

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• We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  New York, Grateful, Past

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• Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

  Donald A. Norman

  Clever, Thinking, Self

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• One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is exactly the wrong word to describe this chapter. This chapter will make nothing clear; it will raise many questions; and it may even contain a surprise or two. But I say we call it the denouement anyway because the words sounds so sophisticated and French.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Two, Finals, May

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.193, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety.

  Doris Lessing

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

  Doris May Lessing (1981). “The Golden Notebook”, Bantam

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• However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

  Sarah Vowell

  Hate, War, Coffee

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• It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

  J. D. Salinger

  Window, Phony, Supposed To Be

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

  Ruth Reichl

  Food, Thinking, House

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• We are at this moment where what concerns me is that we're all so caught up in Donald Trump, James Comey, and David Kushner, and Mike Flynn, that it's in danger of overwhelming the real story, which is what the Russians did and tried to do. I contend that it was the most serious attack on our country since September 11, 2001. It was deliberate, it was sophisticated, it was conscious, and it was in some ways successful.

  Angus King

  Country, Real, Successful

  "This Voice of Reason Rises From the Swamp". Interview With Albert R. Hunt, www.bloomberg.com. June 18, 2017.

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• Hillary's never been anything but the Smartest Woman in the World. I've talked about this I don't know how many times. I know Republicans and conservatives scared to death of this woman, scared to death. And it isn't because they think she's not sophisticated. It isn't because they think she's stupid. But she gets into trouble enough or she fails enough, like when she does poorly in a primary, what do they chalk it up to? Sexism, like Don Lemon did. Sexism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Thinking, World

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

  William Shatner

  Growing Up, Cities, Today

  "William Shatner: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2012.

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• The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.

  Khaled Mashal

  School, Army, Israeli

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

  Patti Smith

  Parent, Educated, Reader

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Matter, Mature Love

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• The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

  James Surowiecki

  Banking, Fundamentals, Vanilla

  "The Real Problem with the Big Banks". www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.

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• We target the Israeli occupation, not civilians. We are defending ourselves with the simple military means that we have at our disposal. We are keen to develop and to get accurate, sophisticated weaponry in order to precisely target Israeli military installations.

  Khaled Mashal

  Military, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Russia has a very sophisticated, advanced attack on U.S. businesses and U.S. government and U.S. institutions. And it's not like Donald Trump is going to be walking away from this. He will be spending a lot of time on it, if he's any sort of normal president.

  David Brooks

  President, Walking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The media is the only business in the world where the customer is always wrong. If you're a news consumer, if you're a customer, and you complain to them, they will tell you that you are not sophisticated enough to understand what they do, and they're tell you to go listen or watch somewhere else. They're not even really doing the news for you. They're doing news for other journalists and other people in government because that's their real audience.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, People, Complaining

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, "It's really, really a dangerous thing. It's just not right. The president of the United States should never, ever make his first foreign trip to the Middle East! Never, ever. Because it's too fraught with potential disaster. Because President Trump clearly is not sophisticated enough to know the idiosyncrasies, the customs, and the requirements." That's right, no president ever has. Do you know that there has never by a direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv until Donald Trump did it? Never.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, President, Flight

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

  Donnie Yen

  Character, Thinking, Flying

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• A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.'

  Dick Morris

  Thinking, Light, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.87, St. Martin's Press

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• I do not claim to have any developed or sophisticated views in political philosophy, but I think that one of the lessons of the last few hundred years of history is that the greatest threat to human prosperity and well-being is fanaticism and intolerance, even in the name of apparently laudable goals.

  Tim Crane

  Philosophy, Thinking, Goal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do in response to this attack 9/11. I'm sure he wanted America to attack Afghanistan. Once you do what your enemy wants, you are walking into a trap, whether you think it's the right thing to do or not.

  Robert Fisk

  Thinking, Enemy, Osama Bin Laden

  Source: progressive.org

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• If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Rocks, Interesting

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.149, Canongate Books

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• She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Scorn, Thrilling, Laughed

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.16, Atlântico Press

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