#find

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#behaving #behavior #beings #complexity #environment

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#aspect #away #country #decides #every

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not. ↗

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

#find #hit #keep #like #predict

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. ↗

— Huston Smith

#deeper #economies #finds #hinge #itself

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#amusing #dying #find #forgive #friends

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#anything #because #find #funny #happy

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#disposition #england #find #friends #i

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine. ↗

— Robert Smith

#everyone #find #go #i #just

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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