C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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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.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
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Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées.
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
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I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don't give up.
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My first proper relationship was at 16 in college.
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I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
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All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
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''Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.
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Theo has been a guy around here who as popular as anybody, especially after last year.
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Civilization no longer represents the conscience of the individuals who must find therein their work. The facts and forces which now organize industry and so-called justice, violate the best instincts of mankind.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
