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“Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.”

World Church Ignorance Prejudice Catholic Institutions Complexes Traditional Intimate Catholic Church Prestige Roman Catholic Entanglement Roman Catholic Church Ignorance And Prejudice

Book:Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church

Source: Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church

“I have such trust comples. I'm close to like two people.”

People Two Complexes

Author:Taylor Momsen

“The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.”

Knows Way Know How Complexes Behave Complex Systems

Author:George E. P. Box

“As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.”

Grows Becoming Civilization Complexes Relate

Author:Anodea Judith

“I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as much as possible. I don't think the responsibility of the reporter or journalist is fundamentally different.”

Thinking World Feels Different Individual Responsibility Complexes Journalist Novelists Reporters

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.”

People Ideas Country Whole Humanity Fighting Violence Degrees Hollywood Bases Complexes Corruption Deny Impulse Tension Conception Tibetan Lama Tibet Dalai

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.”

People Want Country Reason Government Imagine Groups Circumstances Stronger Complexes Minorities Other Countries Influential Nostalgic Central Government

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.”

Persons Issues Music Is Complexes Simplicity Deeper Pops Contemporary Complexity Concerts Pop Music

Author:Michael Hersch

“I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of "simple" or "complex" music - has become increasingly problematic and is almost never productive.”

Thinking Simple Style Example Complexes Paint Tendencies Productive Broads Composer Brushes Identifying

Author:Michael Hersch

“I didn't want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like a political statement, but also club jams. I wanted it to be dancy, but intelligent at the same time.”

Want Kind Wanted Political Class Intelligent Complexes Albums Clubs Rap Statements Jam

Author:Le1f

“We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough job... It can perhaps be done if you stand united and work with me in putting sustained pressure on the protagonists or the parties to come together and seek a political settlement.”

Ifs Done Together Jobs Political Sides United Party Situation Tough Pressure Complexes Opposition Division Settlement Protagonists

Author:Kofi Annan

“Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.”

Thinking Littles Made War Talking Poverty Economy Progress Kings Racism Complexes Enormous Luther

Author:Andrew Young

“But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.”

Stories Film Challenges Special Elements Clean Complexes Narrative Maintaining Straightforward

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.”

Simple Complexes

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.”

“Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally be trusted only if they remain short; even moderately long nonmathematical arguments rapidly becomes farfetched an dubious.”

Ifs Long Character Sound Common Argument Mathematics Complexes Common Sense Mathematical Trusted Formal Precise Dubious

Author:Jacob T. Schwartz

“Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.”

Simple Answers Wonder Offers Complexes Complicated Educated

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.”

Humans Ideas Different Sometimes Problem Action Effort Plans Failing Magic Sacrifice Solutions Complexes Solve Bullets Components Human Problems

Author:Alan Carr

“Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.”

Men Hands My Own Special Complexes Explanation

Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.”

Humans Action Spirit Spring Complexes Human Spirit Scarce

Book:The White Company

Source: The White Company

“Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich and fulfilling and that has an end that is perfectly fulfilling, and that has an end that is perfect for that character, and the audience will love it.”

Knows Want Persons Ends Character Perfect Interesting Audience Rich Journey Complexes Fulfilling Really Interesting

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.”

Process Simple Capitalism Complexes Regulation Incentives

Author:Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

“In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.”

People Stories Lines Interesting Deals Focus Findings Complexes Journalism Complex Systems

Author:Nicholas Lemann

“It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.”

World Want Wells Wanted Term Interest Challenges Technology Influence This World Computer Evidence Complexes Electricity Asian Circuits Electronics Mashups

Author:Miles Millar

“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”

Feelings Life Is Desire Emotion Expression Complexes Involving

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge

“I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.”

Feels Art Bigs Form Language Answers Style Listening Complexes Sentences English Language Expressive Interviewers Laconic

Author:Andy Warhol

“Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.”

Way Humans Matter Hard Asks Understanding Simple Deals Study Complexes Affair Edges Complicated Simple Things Hard Questions

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.”

World Ideas Modern Dangerous Complexes Fundamentalism Rigidity

Author:Michael Crichton

“The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.”

Humans Ends Facts Human Beings Consciousness Rich Ordinary Complexes Patient Medical Hospitals Life Experience Ordinary Life Residents Rich Life Medical Knowledge

Book:Travels

Source: Travels

“The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.”

Thinking Knows States Reason Certain Belief Environment Type Personality Complexes Environmental Unhappy Evolve Abandon Belief Systems Demonstrating Know It All Personality Types

Author:Michael Crichton

“The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.”

World Can Do Simple Situation Complexes Rational Analysis Sentiments Good Will

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.”

“Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.”

“Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego”

World Facts Memories Alive Truth Is Ego Prison Complexes Ghost Persistence Knots Ghost World

Author:Rajneesh

“"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.”

Knows Enough Past Events Circumstances Complexes Repeats Analogies Repeating History History Repeats Itself Past Events

Author:G. M. Trevelyan

“Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.”

Want Goal Complexes Remembered Complexity Engineers Complex Systems

Author:David Parnas

“The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.”

America Social Changed Projects Complexes Massive Construction Engineering Social Engineering

Author:Noam Chomsky

“From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.”

Real Country States Government Interest Decision Effects Late Mass Court Complexes Locals Interaction Estates Federal Government Undermining Local Government Court Decision Mass Transit

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.”

Writing Simple Complexes

Author:Stephen King

“Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.”

Problem Values Simple Struggle Stage Evolution Morality Conflict Complexes Patterns Evolve

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.”

Thinking Way Mean Girl Fighting Feminism Limits Complexes Feminist Core Being A Girl

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.”

World Theory Complexes

Book:Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different perspective. It's not just an advertisement with one single message that has some authority, political or not.”

Should Art Different Political Possibility Perspective Authority Messages Complexes Layers Advertisements Different Perspective

Author:Camille Henrot

“What attracted me to it, beyond it being really intelligent, was that it was sadly something that would be unique on television. Anchoring this political show is this vital, dynamic, complex, thriving marriage. These people are passionately and fiercely committed to making it work out.”

People Shows Would Be Political Television Unique Intelligent Complexes Committed Work Out Being Real

Author:Tim Daly

“I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.”

Thinking Way Ideas Technology Negative Complexes Communicate Complicated Prominent Really Positive

Author:Jane Levy

“You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization. There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It's fun, but it's not simple fun.”

Use Wanted Fun Simple Views Complexes Point Of View Genre Characterization

Author:Adrian Hodges

“It's a very organic kind of way that people are discovering it, by word of mouth, which I always think is the best way for things to grow. In terms of the affect it's been having on me, I don't even notice that. It's lovely to be able to talk about a piece of work that you're very proud of, that I think's a complex piece of work and not superficial and has depth to it.”

People Thinking Way Kind Able Grows Term Pieces Proud Mouths Complexes Depth Lovely Best Way Discovering Superficial Word Of Mouth

Author:Cillian Murphy

“When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.”

Writing Years Humans Littles Real Moments Character Faces Speak Bits Human Beings Focus Little Bit Complexes Bones Flesh Ghost Precise Real Human

Author:Jaco Van Dormael

“At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Jobs Force Risk Skills Complexes Rate Grades Stable Composition Percentages Oversimplification

Author:Alan Greenspan

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