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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Topics: Acquisition Against Complex Disastrous Exists Government Guard Influence Military-Industrial Misplaced Must Persist Potential Power Rise Sought Unwarranted Whether Will

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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Topics: Ancient Complex Find First First Things Get Human Manageable More Most Often Older Problem Process Proportion Rule Taking Things Which Wisdom

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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Topics: Acquisition Against Complex Guard Influence Military-Industrial Must Sought Unwarranted Whether

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Any Bigger Complex Courage Direction Fool Genius Intelligent Lot Make More Move Opposite Opposite Direction Takes Things Touch

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I started off life at Pixar with interesting technical problems. But as time has moved on, I found that the social and management problem was far more complex and interesting.

~Ed Catmull

Topics: Complex Far Found Interesting Life Management More Moved Moved On Off Pixar Problem Problems Social Started Technical Time

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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

~Ed Koch

Topics: Apart Begins Complex Fall Fit Found Group Individuals Learn Lose More Power Stereotype Stereotypes Suggest Than Then World Would

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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

~Eddie Redmayne

Topics: Action Become Calls Camera Complex Director Even Evidence Fear Film Free Go Itself Learn More Nerves Persistent Place Sees Somehow Suffer Tension You

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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

~Edith Head

Topics: About Basic Caring Complex Deeply Female Instinct Look Narcissist Stars Way Women

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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Address American Apart Beginning Beliefs Carried Clue Complex Condition Dealing Give Human Human Condition Interest Intrinsic Itself Level Lives Meant Point Puritans Reached Scholarship System Them Where

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Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.

~Edward Brooke

Topics: Complex Conservative Even He Liberal Loved Man Moderate Nixon Nor Politician Politics Pragmatic Richard Richard Nixon Think Very

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