Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it."
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Complicated
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Alice Paul
Suffragist, Activist
"To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it."
Robert Adams
Photographer
"Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe."
Diogenes
Philosopher
"We have complicated every simple gift of the gods."
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"Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated."
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"The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures."
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"Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect."
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"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
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"That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding."
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"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."
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"It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice."
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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."
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"High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship."
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"I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm."
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"Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it."
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"As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living."
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"History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns."
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"We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think."
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"Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively."
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"In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man."
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"I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry."
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"For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing."
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"We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke."
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"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."
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