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• I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

  John Green

  Teenager, Wrestling, Thinking

  "The Fault in Our Stars' John Green on Why He Loves Writing For Teens". Interview with Ryan Roschke, www.popsugar.com. March 31, 2015.

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• In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Illustration, Naval Warfare, Navy

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• Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Absence, Glorious

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• Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Mind, Facts

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• The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Men, Discovery

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• The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, People, Benefits

  "Britain needs schools for science" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

  Jack Kelly

  Suicide, Poison, Intolerance

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• My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

  Renee Zellweger

  Funny, Height, Pickles

  "Fictional character: Bridget Jones". "Bridget Jones's Diary", m.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

  Aaron Copland

  Self, Discipline, Simplicity

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• With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Hands, Brain, Cameras

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• The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Dog, Light, Race

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• I think a lot of people are involved in art because of the fashion of art and the conversation. It gives them a certain sophistication, something to speak about. But art is, if it's conceptual, really about understanding the concept. And if it's beautiful, it's about seeing the beauty. It's gone much further than that now. There's too much commercialism attached to art. If the market cracks one day big-time, you'll frighten so many people away who will never come back. Because they don't really feel for art. People who buy art should want it because they love it, they want to enjoy it.

  Laurence Graff

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Play, Interesting

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• We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Cutting, Keys, Long

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack of sophistication on the part of some people who, in their work, like to give the impression of, "Has there been intercourse or not? Are they about to?" But they take it into a realm that has a vulgar touch to it.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Thinking, Air

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.

  Bryan Fuller

  Animal, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.

  Jason Wu

  Mean, Giving, Dresses

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

  Francis Chan

  Art, Creativity, Diversity

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.18, David C Cook

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• In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

  Oliver Lodge

  Stronger, May, Cases

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

  Ralph Linton

  Science, Development, Unusual

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• The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Religious, Loss, Men

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Maturity, Opinion

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.188, Harmony

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• Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Lying, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.24, Random House

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  Iain Glen

  Class, Tongue, Faces

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

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