Complex Quotes
1613 quotes by 1299 authors
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The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.
— Owen Gingerich
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Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient…
— Layne Redmond
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
— Andy Rooney
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
— Andre Gide
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The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of…
— Euripides
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
— Thomas Merton
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Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.
— Clive James
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have…
— Remy de Gourmont
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I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful…
— Freya Stark
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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious…
— Norman O. Brown
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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character…
— Ann Beattie
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There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in…
— Leslie Orgel
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Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium…
— Richard Leakey
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The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple…
— Margaret Mahy
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We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to…
— Rachel Maddow
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