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“The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.”

Trying Humans Persons Might Eye Found Lost Known Subjects Human Nature Needed Kissing Speech Mouths Areas Complexes Edges Noses Flats Vehicle Curves Folds Chins Nuance Portraiture Lost And Found

Author:Robert Genn

“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.”

“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.”

Ifs Feels Reason Feelings Passion Interest Perfect Minutes Subjects Ten Clothes Concern Roots Dresses Complexes Indifferent Topics Straightforward Guarded Touchy Overbearing Deep Roots

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.”

Thinking Self Country Subjects Europe Tradition Complexes Western Deeper Treated Revelations Popular Music Self Revelation Western Music Country Western Country Western Music

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.”

People Thinking Writing Subjects Complexes Theme

Author:Jillian Medoff

“In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.”

“The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.”

Thinking Has Beens Art Political Culture Subjects Intellectual Difficulty Complexes Oppressed Theologian Magician Intricate Feats Impediments Arcane

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“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.”

“History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.”

Humans Easy Subjects Complexes Human Society

Author:Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges