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• Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

  Norman Mailer

  Wise, Giants, Literature

  Dissent Summer 1957, p. 281

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• Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Score, Knows

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• The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

  David Byrne

  Marijuana, Smoking, Trying

  "Shock pictures to scare smokers" by David Gow, James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.

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• Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

  Niklaus Wirth

  People, Causes, Admiration

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• Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Complexity, Devices

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Documentary, 1977.

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• I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.

  G-Eazy

  Powerful, Philosophy, Simple

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• Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

  Joyce Appleby

  Details, Dozen, Coherence

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• Sophistication isn't what you wear and who you know.

  Taylor Swift

  Who You Know, Knows

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• This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

  Stanislav Grof

  Book, Unique, Blood

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• One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Men, Goal

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• Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Who You Know, Want

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• Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Long, Essentials

  Jon Meacham (2008). “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House”, p.24, Random House

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  The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

  Jim Henson

  Inspirational, Children, People

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.52, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

  Steve Jobs

  Hard Work, Simple, Order

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• Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Home, Cities, Feelings

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

  Vera Farmiga

  Writing, Character, Female

  "THR Roundtable: Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Keri Russell on Explicit Sex Scenes, Crazy Fans and Lactating on George Clooney". Roundtable, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

  David Krieger

  Islamic, Cities, Worst Case Scenario

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• Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.

  Peter York

  Clever, Names, Saws

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• I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Land, Community, Way

  Helena Norberg-Hodge (2017). “Ancient Futures, 3rd Edition”, p.172, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.

  Boaz Ganor

  Effort, Decision, Challenges

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• Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.

  Bill Watterson

  Moving, Cartoon, Done

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• The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought... Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Numbers, Ignorant

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

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• Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

  George Will

  Government, Distribution Of Wealth, Bigs

  "George Will: Obama’s tardy epiphany about government’s flaws" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. December 11, 2013.

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• A turtleneck is about sophistication.

  Dwyane Wade

  Turtlenecks

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• The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it.

  Robert Benchley

  Eye, School, Men

  Life Magazine, April 14, 1921.

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