#lexi

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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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

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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ↗

— Peter Berger

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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free. ↗

— Gary Ross

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Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be. ↗

— John Phillips

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Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work. ↗

— Tory Burch

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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#does #extent #how #matter #matters

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

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In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207) ↗

— Alain de Botton

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