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We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in lots of sugar, and we'll get fat and sick. Confine our movement, and we'll get weak and antsy. Give us some manageable problems with which to grapple, and we'll cheer up.

~Ben Dolnick

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The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

~Ben Gibbard

Topics: Because Changes Clever Complex Hall Key Listening Number Pass Seamless Song Songwriting You

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How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

~Ben Horowitz

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I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

~Ben Nicholson

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Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

~Benjamin Hoff

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Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

~Benjamin Netanyahu

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Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

~Berkeley Breathed

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The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions.

~Bernardo Houssay

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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

~Bharati Mukherjee

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Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

~Bill Gurley

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