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• My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

  Demi Lovato

  Black, Style, Kind

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• Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

  Dianne Wiest

  Intelligent, People, Young

  "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

  David Cameron

  Ideas, Generations, World

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• Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Past, Men

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.422, Best Books on

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• No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

  Murray Levin

  Freedom, Stupid, Liberty

  Murray Burton Levin (1971). “Political hysteria in America: the democratic capacity for repression”

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• A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Regret, Nice, Stupidity

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• I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

  Alan Furst

  Writing, People, Novel

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• These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Book

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moving, People, Together

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• No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Moving, Heart

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

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• So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

  Alton Brown

  Hands, Honey, Bees

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• The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It seems that every time a pressing danger is avoided a new and more sophisticated threat appears on the horizon...Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Spiritual, Mind, Comfort

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• You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.

  Gianni Versace

  Women, Dresses, Elegant Woman

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• Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

  Robert Fisk

  America, Bin Laden, Wells

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sports, Spiritual, Art

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• There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, Calm, Leashes

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• Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Growing Up, Years, Psychology

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Enough, Simulation, Situation

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• Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

  Simon Van Booy

  Accepting, Form, Difficult

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• ... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan.

  Michio Kaku

  Numbers, Space, Identity

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.173, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

  Bede Griffiths

  World, Mystery, Tradition

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• We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.

  Keith L. Moore

  Hands, Making Love, Use

  Keith L. Moore (1992). “Clinically oriented anatomy”

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• The EU Kids Online project is the most theoretically informed and methodologically sophisticated study we have on the issue of risks in the new electronic environment. This book is rich in details and insights that greatly advance our understanding.

  David Finkelhor

  Book, Kids, Issues

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• Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never fully reflect the hidden face of humanity, its creator, in the same sense that a computer can never become fully human or know what it means to be human: however sophisticated, these machines will forever remain mere artifacts of humanity.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Mean, Reality, Forever

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.179, SUNY Press

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• ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less tools. And that took we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal.

  Marco Rubio

  Isis, Needs, Tools

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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