#complex

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#ascendancy #came #completely #complexion #end

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #any #complex #gotten #individuals

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

#attention #being #complex #complexity #could

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#any #begin #complex #elsewhere #here

You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#becoming #certain #complex #get #gets

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#beard #black #brown #complexion #deficient

Gymnastics is so complex. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#gymnastics

Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you". ↗

— Richard O. Moore

#love #silence #simplicity #love

Very well, I promise. So, what did you get for me?" Angeline paused for a beat. "Jeans." "What?" croaked Artemis. "And a T-shirt" ...Artemis took several breaths. "Does the T-shirt have any writing on it?" A rustling of paper crackled through the phone's speakers. "Yes, it's so cool. There's a picture of a boy who for some reason has no neck and only three fingers on each hand, and behind him in this sort of graffiti style is the words RANDOMOSIY. I don't know what that means but it sounds really current." Randomosity though Artemis, and he felt like weeping. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#atlantis-complex #jeans #randomosity #t-shirt #style

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#man #men