“ We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ”
- Warren Weaver- Copy
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“ The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated. ”
- Peter Malkin- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
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“ A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
- 226
“ I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
- 605
“ God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world. ”
- Bede Griffiths- Copy
- 2.6K
“ While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions. ”
- Eva Hoffman- Copy
- 151
“ Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant. ”
- Zelda Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots. ”
- Doctor Who- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still. ”
- Judy Davis- Copy
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“ How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
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“ I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2K
“ As I see it, the most effective way to do this is frankly to accept these historical tales for what they are now known to be - folklore - and treat them in such a fashion that the realistic-minded, sophisticated people of our generation accept them… I sincerely hope that this painting will help reawaken interest in the cherry tree tale and other bits of American folklore that are too good to lose. ”
- Grant Wood- Copy
- 1.9K
“ You know, Willie Wonka said it best: We are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams. We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams… ”
- Herb Brooks- Copy
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“ Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better. ”
- John Welch- Copy
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“ Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. ”
- Robert Doisneau- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint — Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems… ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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