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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
Walt Whitman
'The veracity is uncomplicated. If it was convoluted, everyone would grasp it.'
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When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it
Bruno Mars
When life becomes convoluted, it only takes a single moment to alter it.
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Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
John von Neumann
Accuracy is too intricate to tolerate anything but estimates.
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To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
Alice Paul
To me there is nothing convoluted about basic fairness.
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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
Soren Kierkegaard
To be female is something so peculiar, baffling and convoluted that only a female could endure it.
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To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.
Bruno Munari
'To muddle is effortless, to clarify is intricate. ... Everyone can muddle. Only a select few can elucidate.'
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I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.
Hans Zimmer
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
Erich Maria Remarque
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Love isn't complicated, people are.
Rihanna
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Do not look for signs.
Do not look for experiences.
Do not be so complicated.
Become like a child.
See everything with awe.
Robert Adams
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The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.
Janusz Korczak
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You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.
Brian Cox
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In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody
Paul Keres
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Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.
Linus Torvalds
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We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.
Diogenes
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[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
James L. Brooks
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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
Karen Miller
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Life is as simple or complicated as we make it.
Donna Smallin
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The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
Henry Ford
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History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond
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Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
C. S. Lewis
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Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.
Martin Schulz
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And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
Robert Penn Warren
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I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.
Henry Clay
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We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.
Milton William Cooper
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I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
Alex Katz
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Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.
Frank Stella
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
Haruki Murakami
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The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated
Kid Cudi
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Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
Immortal Technique
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
David Lynch
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I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.
Sinead O'Connor
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I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.
Mel Gibson
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nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.
John Henry Holland
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
Roald Dahl
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About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.
James Frey
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She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?
Richard Yates
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
Sigmund Freud
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Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.
Max Horkheimer
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That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.
Cheryl Strayed
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Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.
Bradley Cooper
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Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
Kirk Hammett
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Outside the firm, price movements direct production, which is co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market. Within a firm, these market transactions are eliminated and in place of the complicated market structure with exchange transactions is substituted the entrepreneur-co-ordinator, who directs production.
Ronald Coase
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
Faith Hill
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The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
Robert Benchley
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Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.
Tavi Gevinson
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I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
James Patterson
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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
Fyodor Dostoevsky