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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

~Alice Munro

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You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

~Andy Stanley

Topics: Cannot Communicate Complexity Complicated Decrease Groups Increase Information Large Number People You

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Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

~Andy Stanley

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The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Beauty Complexity Detail Exuberance Forms Generosity Infinite Multiplicity Notion Pleasing Variety

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I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

~Antonia Bird

Topics: Always Been Complexity Cure Immune Struck Where World

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The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: Able Being Believes Complexity Deal Father Folly Greatest He His Human Human Being More Much Own Person Really Simple Simple Person Than

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I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Become Complexity Extreme Handle Individual Medicine More Teams Than Think I Think

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Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: About Also Complexity Days Go Great Head How How Much Ignorance Just Make Medicine Much Our Struggle Sure Things Think Thousand Uncertainty Ways Wrong You Your

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In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Am Bad Black Complexity Dominant Everything Gaze Good Gray Hollywood Male Me Okay People Positive Saying See Straight Talk View Voice White Women I Am

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We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Anywhere Anywhere Else Beneath Complexity Doing Else Emotion Faces Fixed Goes Gymnastics Human Koreans Life Life Goes On Mass North Parades Real Real Life Same See Smiles

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