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• The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

  Charles C. Mann

  Visitors, Explaining, Complex Systems

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• Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

  Harold Evans

  Understanding, Action, Paradox

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• Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioning of the self, either subtle or stark. Cure is the new, strange planet, pressing in. The doctor could not have known. And that made me, as it does every patient, only more alone.

  Lauren Slater

  Doctors, Self, Doe

  Lauren Slater (2011). “Prozac Diary”, p.13, Random House

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• Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Believe, People, Simplicity

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• Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Grateful, Book, Thinking

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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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• The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Clouds, Iceland, Eruption

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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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• When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Simple, Men, Ak 47

  "Kalashnikov, 90, decries 'criminal' use of rifle" by Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Roddy, www.reuters.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

  Stanley Crouch

  Intelligent, Odds, People

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• What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

  Donald A. Norman

  Simple, Numbers, Devices

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.40, MIT Press

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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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• An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Struggle, Atmosphere, Belief

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

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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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• At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern.
  After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes.
  By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Numbers, Clouds

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• The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions.

  Simon Anholt

  Spiritual, Real, Needs

  Simon Anholt (2006). “Brand New Justice”, p.5, Routledge

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• Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

  Joichi Ito

  School, Thinking, People

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• Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

  Herbert Simon

  Organization, Decision, Problem

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• It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

  Jerome Wiesner

  Military, United States, Culture

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• Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality

  Rob Bell

  Stars, Reality, Rocks

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• I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

  Dean Koontz

  Giving, Answers, Life Is

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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