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• People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

  George Carlin

  Real, School, Simple

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Science, Animal, Brain

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• Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

  Robert Fripp

  Simple, Knowing, Understanding

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• Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

  Albert Einstein

  Challenges, Details, Topics

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• It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

  Deborah Tannen

  Daughter, Mother, Being The Best

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• Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

  Karl Kraus

  Nature, Air, People

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• Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

  Alain Ducasse

  Ducks, Cooking, Adjectives

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• In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

  Ben Bova

  Believe, Writing, Add

  Ben Bova (1998). “Twice Seven: Stories”, Eos

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• And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

  Winston Churchill

  Sacrifice, D Day, Operations

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• Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Simple, Games

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• A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Thorough Understanding, Typical, Tactics

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

  Paul Keres

  Chess, Fischer, Position

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• Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

  Merlin Olsen

  Football, Simple, Self

  "Who's Better, Who's Best in Football?: Setting the Record Straight on the Top 60 NFL Players of the Past 60 Years". Book by Steve Silverman, 2009.

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• The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.

  Louis Agassiz

  Beach, Nature, Eye

  "Geological Sketches". Book by Louis Agassiz, ch. 2 (pp. 31 - 32), 1870.

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• The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

  David Karp

  Business, Team, People

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• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

  C. W. Ceram

  Inspirational, Teaching, Simple

  C.W. Ceram (2012). “Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology”, p.262, Vintage

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• I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

  Charis Wilson

  Feelings, Body, Way

  Edward Weston, Charis Wilson (1993). “Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters”

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• Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, People, Quality

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here

  Paul Romer

  Perfect, Interesting, Giving

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• We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

  Philip M. Condit

  Moving, Over You, World

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• The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

  Satish Kumar

  Simple, Climate, Busy

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• 95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Common Sense, Essentials, Details

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• It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Ocean, Loss, Personal Transformation

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• The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.

  Gerald Durrell

  Men, Fire, Ecosystems

  Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Civilization, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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