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"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction." »Leo Tolstoy
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"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." »Henri Cartier-Bresson
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"I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can." »Cullen Hightower
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"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." »Rmy de Gourmont
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"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple." »Gerald W. Grummet
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"It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." »Doug Vargas
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"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi
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"148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)." »Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
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"We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them." »Tsutomu Shimomura
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"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism." »H. P. Lovecraft
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"Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face." »Vaclav Havel
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"We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world." »William Fullbright
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"The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience." »John Updike
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." »Albert Einstein
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"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" »Hoshang N. Akhtar
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." »Albert Einstein
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"One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." »Franklin Thomas
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"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall
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"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety." »H. L. Mencken
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"Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful." »Unknown
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"Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty." »Euell Gibbons
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"Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence." »Henri Estienne
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"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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