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“Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.”

Mean Ideas Five Objects Gains Absolutes Complexes Notion Senses Impression No Idea Cosmos Receiving

Book:Lovecraft's Works

Source: Lovecraft's Works

“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.”

People Way Philosophy Helping Able Moving Simple Behinds Teach Building Gains Complexes Worthwhile Building Up Parkour Gaining Confidence

Author:Chris Hayes

“By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.”

“Katalyst is a merger of three industries. A piece of us is connected to ad agencies. Because we get the complex overlay of the social Web, we know how to engage an audience and how to make entertainment for the social Web. And we know how to gain and activate and retain an audience. So we create social networks for brands.”

Knows Three Social Audience Know How Pieces Industry Gains Complexes Entertainment Connected Brands Agency Ads Social Network Activate Mergers

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.”

Ifs Success Masters Needed Gains Harder Mark Complexes Chess Titles

Book:Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games

Source: Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games

“By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.”

World Feels Simple Walking Gains Complexes Simplicity Naked Uplifting Unexpected Clothings Restraint Coolness Delirious

Book:The Complete Walker IV

Source: The Complete Walker IV