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• Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy.

  Subodh Gupta

  Body Weight, Perfect, Rockets

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• I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Ignorance, Complicated World, Velocity

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• Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

  Martin Parr

  Inspiring, Photography, World

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• In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Water, Elements

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Respect, Work, Mean

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.109, New Press, The

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• Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store:
  You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Add, Needs, Sticks

  Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi (2006). “All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

  Philip Pullman

  Sex, Book, Kids

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• Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Crazy, People, Happens

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Acceptance, Mindfulness, Clinging

  Sylvia Boorstein (1995). “It's easier than you think: the Buddhist way to happiness”, HarperOne

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• If life is no fun, it is because you are no fun. Your life is always a reflection of who you are... Try this: Stop taking things, including yourself, so seriously. Life is not as complicated as you have made it out to be.

  Larry Winget

  Fun, Reflection, Trying

  Larry Winget (2009). “No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget”, Penguin

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• I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

  Diane Wakoski

  Dream, Flower, Helping

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• I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Tired, Talking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off I don’t know of any illegal behavior, but will people push the envelope and pitch lucrative and complicated products to clients even if they are not the simplest investments or the ones most directly aligned with the client’s goals? Absolutely. Every day, in fact.

  Greg Smith

  Goal, People, Envelopes

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• Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Art, Self

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• Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Odd, Obvious

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Growing Up, Firsts

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

  Matt Ridley

  Falling In Love, People, Failing

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• Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing is sure - any man who covers his face and packs a gun is a legitimate target for any decent citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, Long Ago

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• Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Father, Parent

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

  Margaret MacMillan

  Feel Good, Generations, Affair

  Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books

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• The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It’s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.

  Naomi Novik

  Simple, Glasses, Magic

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• Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

  Karen Miller

  Simple

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• Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

  Donald Curtis

  Fall, Simple, Simplicity

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• Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in an uncertain world, economy in a high-priced world, simplicity in a complicated world, marketing awareness in a clueless world.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Clueless, Complicated World, People

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• Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

  Miuccia Prada

  Nostalgia, Refuse, Subjects

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

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