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Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

~Duane Michals

Topics: Because Complexity Deepest Each Emotions Equal Even Human Human Emotions Know Language Love Love You Lovers Other Really Relationship Say Saying You I Love I Love You

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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Able About Age Because Bible Brain Bronze Build Complexity Consciousness Disaster Ever Everything Find Gone Happens How Machine Ourselves Out Planetary Road Since Then Thought Will Works

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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Become Complexity Depend Depended Men Men And Women Once Other Others Our Past Present Remember Suffered Them Us Which Will Women

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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

~Edward De Bono

Topics: Any Attention Being Complex Complexity Could Dealing Energy Inefficient Justification Mental Never Simple Things Time Unnecessary Waste Waste Of Time

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Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Complexity Duality Just Story

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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Associations Complexity Consists Delicacy Evolution Formation Increase Intellectual Number Permanence Race Speed

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This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Animal Associations Case Complexity Delicacy Formation Growth Man Number Permanence Possible Speed

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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

~Edwin Way Teale

Topics: Complexity Labors Life Needless Reduce Themselves Wants

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There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Approaches Believe Birth Christianity Complexity Doctrine Gospels Insist Instance Kinds Literally Mean Multiplicity Open Out Some Story Thing Think Throw Whole You

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Women know that we're not just strong. We're not just vulnerable. We are not just attractive or not attractive. We are many things at once, and we're able to see into that complexity.

~Elisabeth Moss

Topics: Able Attractive Complexity Just Know Many Once See Strong Things Vulnerable Women

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