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Quotes About Complex

Far from being the rock or island in the Simon and Garfunkel song, it turns out that the best metaphor to describe the human body is 'sponge.
~ Rick Smith
I, of course, am considered mad, bad and dangerous to know.
~ Kate Atkinson
At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom, and I saw it was possible that the consequences of Morgan's Falls had at no stage been within my control.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom, and I saw it was possible that the consequences of Morgan's Falls had at no stage been within my control.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Fascism offered false solutions, simplistically blaming groups such as Jews and Communists for complex problems such as unemployment and crime. She made merciless fun of the concept of the triumph of the will, likening the Führer and the Duce to playground bullies. They claimed popular support, but banned all opposition.
~ Ken Follett
Grégory avait un esprit tordu qui convenait parfaitement à qui voulait pratiquer le droit.
~ Ken Follett
Fascism offered false solutions, simplistically blaming groups such as Jews and Communists for complex problems such as unemployment and crime.
~ Ken Follett
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
~ Rollo May
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
It is safe to say that with the discovery of DNA around the middle of the last century Darwinism was in effect disqualified as a scientific theory. With the publication moreover of Dembski's 1998 theorem regarding 'complex specified information' it has been rigorously disproved on mathematical grounds, and thus reduced from a bona-fide scientific hypothesis to the status of a sociological phenomenon.
~ Wolfgang Smith
Her conclusions in a 2001 paper, "The Speed of Thought: Investigation of a Complex Space-Time Metric to Describe Psychic Phenomena," indicate that the speed of thought is transcendent of any finite velocity. Further, she states that the speed of thought is instantaneous, not defined in units per second as the speed of light is. What
~ David Morehouse
maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager...
~ David Nicholls
Veganism is merely the continuation of Christianity by other means. It's the Sermon on the Mount extended from the poor, weak and meek to animals. It gives every vegan the opportunity to posture as a Messiah, saving the poor little animals from Leviathan. Vegans are addicted to having a Messiah Complex. The powerless often posture as activists on behalf of the even more powerless. It makes them feel better about themselves.
~ David Sinclair
America suffers from the Oedipus Complex. It wants to kill its father (England) and fuck its mother (Christianity, the Virgin Mary).
~ David Sinclair
He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and suddenly wanted to do both.
~ Day Keene
The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion
~ Dean Cavanagh
I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.
~ David Fincher
What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
~ George Tenet
of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing. She can't
~ Jeanine Cummins
Acute pain is triggered by stimulation of peripheral nociceptors in the skin or deeper structures and is a complex process involving multiple mediators at various levels of the neuraxis (Figure 3-2).
~ Jean-Louis Vincent
I am one of those women with a regrettable tendency to take on the responsibilities of the world. Regrettable, because it leads to meddling in what's really none of my business and endless fretting that wears me out without accomplishing anything. I suppose I like to feel I'm indispensable, which nobody is. It's a form of egotism, a superiority complex, perhaps.
~ Jeanne M. Dams
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre