Complex Quotes

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The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction… — Melvin Schwartz
Beware the military-industrial complex. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but… — Noam Chomsky
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in… — Gerald Durrell
The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are… — Vaclav Havel
We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not… — Annie Dillard
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple. — Jay Abraham
My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him. — Jim Carrey
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Leonard Bloomfield
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;… — Simone Weil
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. — Boz Scaggs
The tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter. The bond is also more complex than the one between mother… — Carol Klein
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make… — Donald Fagen
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling or event, making… — Ann Reed
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also… — Paul Zollo
Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do… — Carrie Newcomer
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and… — Scott Woods
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are… — Swami Vivekananda

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