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“What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.”

Way Trying Book Matter Running Universe Building Particular Fundamentals Complexes Block Chains Ties Entity Particles Building Blocks Adaptive Jaguars Quarks

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.”

People Writing Kind Character Wanted Together Guy Hate Fighting Evil Fantasy Capacity Complexes Good People Bad Guys Get Together Complex Characters

Author:George R. R. Martin

“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.”

Artist Color Shapes Ordinary Garden Plant Intention Complexes Landscape Unusual Aesthetic Gardening Plastic Volume Doomed True Happiness Disappearance

Author:Roberto Burle Marx

“You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.”

Problem Complexes Solve Inequality Clauses

Author:Theresa May

“Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.”

Humans Heart Problem Hands Reality Speak Term Simple Fire Products Eternal Complexes Scripture Mysterious Bliss Imagery Damnation Human Hands

Author:Jon Meacham

“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.”

Problem Freedom Simple Answers Business Clear Complexes Simplicity Programming Funny Inspirational Software Engineering Complex Problems Wrong Answers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”

Men Want Fear Emotion Worry Courage Safety Complexes Permanent Inferiors Being Afraid Inexplicable Fear Of The Unknown Worry And Fear Worry Fear

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.”

Ifs Want Needs Grows Computer Machines Plant Complexes Giants Chips Facility Manufacturing Fabrication Semiconductors

Author:Ralph Merkle

“Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'”

Motivational Keys Complexes Simplicity Definitions Complicated Sincere Avoiding Complication

Author:Joyce Meyer

“You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.”

Want Soul Whole Body Spirit Jesus Emotion Conscience Complexes Heal

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.”

People Ends Play Complexes Bored Lazy Realised Rubbish

Author:Sienna Miller

“I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?”

Needs Emotion Majors Tragedy South Complexes Handle Minors Chords Sophistication

Author:Joni Mitchell

“There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie theater, and it is in the - it is in the General Motors headquarters complex.”

Cities Theater Complexes Motor Detroit Movie Theater Headquarters General Motors

Author:Michael Moore

“Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.”

“It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.”

Ifs Thinking Children Happens Emotion One Thing Creatures Jokes Complexes Rap Gorgeous Posters Great Change

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.”

Knows World Want Children Sometimes Problem Literature Difficult Dark Horror Adults Presses Complexes Entertaining Buttons

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.”

People Thinking Littles Problem Bigs Process Company Creative Smart Machines Complexes Behave Substitutes Gears Big Companies

Author:Elon Musk

“No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.”

“Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.”

Trying Has Beens Problem Building Approach Complexes Israel Resolve Palestinian Refugee Pyramids Jerusalem Top Down Complex Problems

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.”

Social Vision Smart Complexes Hearing Excellent Gentle Pigeons Social Relationships Complex Relationships

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”

Doe Truth Duty Truth Is Guilt Complexes Rewards

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.”

Government Teach Generations Complexes Systems Of Government Complex Systems

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.”

People World Artist Personality Politician Complexes

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.”

Way Inspirational Today Space Messages Smart Complexes Intelligence Hip Hop Communicate Hips Hops Remarkable Insightful Personal Leadership

Author:Barack Obama

“Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.”

Should Business Complexes Marketing Advertising Symbols Brands Contribution Advertisements Advertising Agencies Advertising And Marketing

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.”

Men Made Hands Four Groups Broken Complexes Small Hands

Author:Yoko Ono

“Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.”

Wells America Romance Situation Alive Failing Percent Complexes Selfishness

Author:Donny Osmond

“We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.”

Seems Stars Periods Complexes These Days Psychics

Author:Camille Paglia

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”

Thinking Wells Problem Business Intelligent Complexes Programming Problem Solving Computer Programming Computer Programmers Solved Problems Undecided Complex Problems Highly Intelligent Business Problems

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.”

Ifs Humans Self Violence Human Nature Empathy Complexes Cooperation Self Control Inclination

Author:Steven Pinker

“The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.”

Mind Brain Effects Complexes Consistent Bags Genes Traits

Author:Steven Pinker

“Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.”

Thinking Feelings Difficult Women Accepting Feminism Ego Independent Complexes Males Classic Fake People Being A Woman Feats Cambridge

Author:Sylvia Plath

“The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.”

Persons Long Lasts Young Games Wish Boys Saws Style Amount Mets Disease Died Complexes Treatment Massive Conventions Fortitude Discworld Assassins

Author:Terry Pratchett

“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”

Ifs Mind Belief College Profound Complexes Destroyers Great Minds College Education Canteen College Freshmen

Author:Dennis Prager

“We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.”

“Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.”

“They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.”

World Politics Simple Answers Business Complexes Easy Answers

Book:The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.”

Mind Sex Simple Psychology Greater Involved Complexes

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.”

World Want Doe Complexes Fence Simplify Picket Fences

Author:Gary Ross

“Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.”

World Relation Complexes Intense Alternatives Nothingness Abstraction Ugliness Seeming Variables Actuality Topography

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.”

People Giving Writing Has Beens Art Artist Rich Magic Complexes Casts Making Money Spells Adore Rich People Get Rich Alchemy

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.”

Men Children Soul Body Light Grows Powerful Greater Eternal Complexes Climbs Faculty Reincarnation No Fear Children Of Men

Book:THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE

Source: THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE

“Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.”

Men Found Simple Stage Evolution Complexes Mentality Civilisation Lofty Crude

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.”

People Persons Ends Life Is Pay Nice Complexes Notion Redemption Bad People

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.”

Humans Sides Dark Human Beings Brain Illusion Complexes Attractive Dark Side

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.”

Done Special Effects Design Complexes Experiments Chocolate Special Effects Rigs Mythbusters

Author:Adam Savage

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.”

People Way Acting Millions Economy Theory Degrees Complexes Chaos Interaction Introducing Literal American Economy Chaos Theory

Author:Nate Silver

“Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.”

Humans May Long Strong Term Decision Complexes Addiction Planning Rational Tendencies Temptation Long Term Decision Making Yield Short Term

Author:Peter Singer

“After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.”

Years Complexes Currents Reform Welfare Unfair Welfare Reform

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

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