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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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
