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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
Lucretius
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.
Ralph Marston
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There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
Cynthia Hand
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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
Edward T. Hall
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.
Thomas Eisner
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Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
Dorothy Hodgkin
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Simplicity and complexity need each other.
John Maeda
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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
Spalding Gray
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Abdus Salam
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We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
Herbert Benson
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Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).
Larry Tesler
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Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.
Max Baucus
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In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
Steven Weinberg
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Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.
Michael Behe
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... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.
Janet Leigh
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Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.
Ken Wilber
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I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
Will Wright
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The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.
Jeff McNeely
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What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.
Michelle Obama
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Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.
John Green
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The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
Douglas Adams
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
Laila Lalami
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All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
Thomas Sowell
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The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
Tom Robbins
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There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
Adrienne Rich
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All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
Peter Drucker
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.
Marsha Mason
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In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity
Gyorgy Ligeti
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You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.
Paul Singer
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We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.
Jan de Bont
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The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity
David Allen
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I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
Richard Roxburgh
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Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
Eric Lander
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I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.
Temple Grandin
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
E. O. Wilson