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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own. ↗

— John Lynch

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A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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