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My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Henry Taube

Chicago, Aspect, Interest

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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Dalia Mogahed

Hero, People, Simplification

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A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

Mark Kurlansky

Portraits, Haiti, Great Experiences

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We live in a very complex world.

Vinton Cerf

World

"Vint Cerf: Concerns over packets and politics". Interview with John Blau, www.infoworld.com. October 25, 2004.

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One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

Jesse Ball

Might, Pairs, Events

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The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

Yvon Chouinard

World, Easy, Simplify

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It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we have no shortage of perfectly good reasons for why we just happen to be doing the same thing as those other people; they mindlessly conform, but we mindfully choose. This doesn't mean that we're all conformists in denial. It means that we regularly fail to recognize that others' thoughts and behaviors are just as complex and varied as our own. Rather than being alone in a crowd of sheep, we're all individuals in sheep's clothing.

Sheena Iyengar

Mean, Perfectly Good, Sheep

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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.

A.M. Homes

Jobs, Sex, War

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In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.

Tony Hoare

Powerful, Real, Learning

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What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

Tony Hoare

Art, Learning, Simple

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Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

Niklaus Wirth

Strong, Believe, Learning

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On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Wilhelm Wundt

Hands, Psychology, Individual

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

Gordon Bethune

Watches, Aviation, Airline

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When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by it's dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Dream, Real, Men

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Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer and more complex patterns of activity; an esthetic heightening of anticipated realizations; a steady lengthening of the future; a faith in cosmic perspectives.

Lewis Mumford

Love, Faith, Opposites

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The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'

Christopher West

Sex, Divorce, Cutting

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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Beautiful, Discovery, Overwhelmed

R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Julia Glass

Crazy, Writing, World

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We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

Ernest Becker

Men, Mad, Cost

Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data—something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.

Silas House

Hate, Heart, Eye

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Leadership is based on complex phenomena.

Rakesh Khurana

"What Top Scholars Say About Leadership". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. May 10, 2010.

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The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

Clay Shirky

Principles, Problem, Dedicated

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The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

Mario Savio

Military, Vineyards, Today

"The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

Sigurd F. Olson

Future, Civilization, Priorities

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At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.

Steve Womack

Office, The End Of The Day, Sitting

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