Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.
For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.
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