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"Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface."
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"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."

"The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale."

"The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity."

"Robust systems have a dynamic hierarchy of nested behaviors. How many moves ahead are you able to think when playing chess? How much effort are you willing to commit to understanding the deeply nuanced structure? Probably, success is not what you think it is. Adventures require novelty. Value has interesting surprises."

"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."

"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."

"Dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities."

"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."

"She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it."

"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
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"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."

"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"

"Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect."

"I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues."

"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth."

"Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning."

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

"That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt."
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