Complexes Quotes

• 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.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Truth, Guilt, Rewards

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• A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Insanity, Mind

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• Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Change, Running

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Civilization, Solitude

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• There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes

  Carl Jung

  Loss, Men, Emotional

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• Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Men, Thinking, Molecules

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• If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then each of these parts can serve as the mould for the production of a replica of the other part, and the complex of two complementary parts thus can serve as the mould for the production of duplicates of itself.

  Linus Pauling

  Two, Molecules, Viruses

  Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences”, p.1119, World Scientific

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• The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Opportunity, Conflict

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.102, Del Rey

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• In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, World, Initiative

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Authority and the Individual”, p.47, Lulu Press, Inc

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• New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, New Orleans, Excellence

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• English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

  Willard Gaylin

  Giving, Intellectual, Purpose

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• Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Phenomenon, Islamophobia

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• There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

  Edward Tufte

  Long, Topics, Slides

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• I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, Years, Interesting

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• It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

  Susan Sarandon

  Roles, Easy, Offers

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• The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Men, Mind, Study

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• I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

  Bruce Sterling

  Military, Entertainment, Entertainers

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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• Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

  Edward T. Hall

  Simple, Space, Sacred

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• All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

  Terry Eagleton

  Moving, Simple, Adequate

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

  David Cronenberg

  Thinking, Want, Surface

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Taught, Difficult

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• I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  People, Imagine, Disaster

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• I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, People

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• As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

  David Puttnam

  Intelligent, World, Responsible

  " A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Home, Emotional, The End Of The Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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