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• The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Keys, Knowing, Understanding

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• Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

  Gregory Skovoroda

  Simple, Giving, Thanks

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by P. Sekirin, 1997.

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• You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Education, Spiritual, Humble

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• The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.

  Ingrid Weir

  Change, Fighting, World

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• And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Feelings, Fluency

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

  Elena Ferrante

  Cutting, Self, Expression

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.301, Penguin

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• Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

  Jillian Hervey

  Strong, Who We Are, Complicated

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I have been dealing with those types of complicated things and my scholastic background, so I think that helps me - my nutrition and my understanding of the human body, and the processes for recovery and proper dietary restrictions.

  Chris Algieri

  Recovery, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.

  Mitchell A. Wilson

  Opposites, Simplicity, Needs

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• Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

  Seth Lloyd

  Simple, Starting Over, Able

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• There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

  Vannevar Bush

  People, Complicated, Affair

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Complicated, Known

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  E. B. White

  Pessimistic, Limits, Complicated

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• It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheist, Drama, Struggle

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.112, Princeton University Press

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• That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Simple, Things In Life, Pockets

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.329, Penguin

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• The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

  Randall Munroe

  Roles, Complicated, Mechanic

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• The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her shoulders, sorry that loving me was such a complicated thing.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sorry, Dark, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.740, Scholastic Inc.

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• I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

  David Levithan

  Simple, Night, Forgotten

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

  John Barth

  Simple, Talent, Complicated

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• ...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together

  Daniel Handler

  Hate, Giving, Missing

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Evil

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Purpose, Study

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

  Noomi Rapace

  Dream, Crazy, Hollywood

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• Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

  Elena Anaya

  Play, Complicated, Dangerous

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

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