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• People are getting tired of being constantly on edge. Maybe that means they do let down their guard or that they're complacent. What does it take to shake that? A 5% correction? A 10% one? Those kinds of declines are unfortunately something you put up with.

  John Manley

  Tired, Mean, People

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• I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Hurt, Believe, Men

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• I had some downtime with my career and I got complacent.

  Jake Busey

  Careers, Downtime

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• Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

  Mika

  Identity, Uninterested

  "The Nowhere Boy: Mika Finds Confidence in Coming Out". Interview with Zack Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

  Joan Robinson

  Sheep, Giving, Hatred

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.22, Springer

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• Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans who allowed the television to raise their children. People were looking for something - I think they just didn't know what. And even though they were once again starting to open their eyes to the world of magic and the arcane that had been with them all the while, they still thought I must be some kind of joke.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Children, Eye

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.14, Penguin

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• To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.

  Osamu Dazai

  Love, Lying, Fall

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

  Paul Newman

  People, Guy, Helping

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

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• I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

  Gary Holland

  Morning, Commitment, Choices

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• The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

  John F. Kennedy

  Self, Progress, Debris

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.306, Best Books on

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• What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is a dangerous place for writers. You don't want to ever get complacent. If a book starts going too well, I usually know there's a problem. I need to struggle. I need that self-doubt. I need to think it's not the best thing ever.

  Harlan Coben

  Struggle, Book, Writing

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• Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teach the gospel. I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape...I wonder if we are doing all we can. Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world? We have been proselyting now 144 years. Are we prepared to lengthen our stride? To enlarge our vision?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Teaching, Years, Giving

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• I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined

  Edmund Morris

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

  Michael Azerrad

  Powerful, Stupid, Past

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• You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Call Me

  "Gwyneth Paltrow On Jay-Z: ‘I’ve Learned A Lot’ From The Rapper", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get
  complacent.

  Katrina Kaif

  Heart, Hard Work, Want

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• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

  Abraham Flexner

  Science, Self, Play

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• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  Edgar Wright

  Thinking, Pressure, Kind

  "Edgar Wright Tackles Hot Fuzz". Movieweb Interview, movieweb.com. April 17, 2007.

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• With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a warning and in incentive to develop truly effective and peaceful means of settling tensions and disputes. Fifty years after the Second World War, the leaders of nations cannot become complacent but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, War, Commitment

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• This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Usa, Switzerland

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• As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child.

  Mark Twain

  Appreciation, Children, Winning

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

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• All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, Night

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.17, tredition

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• Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

  Charles de Lint

  Heart, Writing, Thinking

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• The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

  Joseph C. Aldrich

  Christian, Self, Joy

  Joseph C. Aldrich, Joe Aldrich (1993). “Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You”, Multnomah

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• The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather
  asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never
  become complacent or despondent about our progress.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Self, Perfection, Progress

  Jeffrey Lang (1997). “Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America”

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