Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex."
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Complexes
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Plotinus
Philosopher
"One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all."
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedian, Television Host
"Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"God is simple, everything else is complex"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex."
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"John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex."
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"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
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"Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them."
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"The complex develops out of the simple."
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"Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society."
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"The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."
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"Motivations are too tangled and complex."
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"Only people who are well off can be - complex."
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"I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules."
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"my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love."
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"Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life."
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"The genius is in making the complex simple."
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"All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know."
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"I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people."
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"The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change."
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"Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that."
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"Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex."
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"The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are."
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"When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything."
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"Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine."
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