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• Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.

  Erol Alkan

  Thinking, Eggs, Careers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.

  Carol Tavris

  Crazy, Anger, Hero

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• There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Men, Years, People

  Vilfredo Pareto, Placido Bucolo (1980). “The other Pareto”

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• The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

  David Remnick

  Giving, Stories, Desperate

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• For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Self, Slave

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.290, CUA Press

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• I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Young Generation, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• # "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Cat, Self

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.

  Walt Whitman

  Games, Looks, Arms

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.46, Psychology Press

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• It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Betrayal, Mistake, Self

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• You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

  Venus Williams

  Loss, Corners, Around The Corner

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• If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.

  Catherine Stock

  Growth, Grows, Ifs

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• We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Believe, Passion, Exercise

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

  Carson McCullers

  Manhattan, Brooklyn, Brilliant

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

  Ed Balls

  Worry, Denial, Today

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• I think that once we get to that point where our generation is running things, I truly believe we'll look back at this time and question why we were ever so complacent withholding something as universal as the freedom of equality and marrying someone that you love.

  Josh Gad

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really honest, I count that as a compliment, in the sense that what I felt "The Prisoner" was for the '60's, in how the individual triumphs over the state and authority, our show is really about how complacent we have become in our lives, which are scrutinized.

  Remi Aubuchon

  People, Triumph, Negative

  Source: collider.com

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• And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?

  Remi Aubuchon

  Taken, Ideas, People

  "Executive Producer Remi Aubuchon Exclusive Interview PERSONS UNKNOWN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• ...and when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive...when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy...and I will not be complacent.

  Amy Ray

  Hate, Long, Hatred

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• wanted to highlight that to a certain extent and go deeper into that direction. I also try to write each song in a different key, so I can be as diverse as I can. I'm always trying to push the envelope and not be complacent or happy in one spot. As far as the grooves on this record are concerned, I think we just tried to experiment in that realm.

  Jason C. Miller

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Neutrality, Panic

  Speech, Tulsa, Okla., 16 Sept. 1959 (printed in John F. Kennedy, The Strategy of Peace, ed. Allan Nevins [1960]).

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• When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

  Nate Parker

  Artist, Dies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.

  Ralph Marston

  Littles, Easy, Threat

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• Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Men, Understanding, Brain

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• Any time you add something to your game, you still have to find ways to improve, so I'm still studying the game and trying to find out ways to increase how we use me on the floor. You're not being complacent, not falling back and floating around the perimeter too much, figuring out when to attack. I'm trying to find that balance between attacking and spotting up and things like that.

  Blake Griffin

  Fall, Games, Balance

  NBA’s media roundtable Interview, slamonlineph.com. January 6, 2015.

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• When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

  Neil Strauss

  Men, Guy, Born

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