Sophistication Quotes - Page 8

• That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

  Richard Russo

  Distance, Intellectual, Purpose

  "Straight Man: A Novel". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.

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• Los problemas de nuestros días se ciernen ominosamente ante nosotros... Rodeados por la sofisticación de la vida moderna, miramos al cielo en busca de ese sentido infalible de la dirección, para poder trazar y seguir un rumbo sabio y adecuado. Nuestro Padre Celestial no dejará sin respuesta nuestra sincera petición.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Wise, Father, Looks

  "Guided Safely Home". Thomas S. Monson's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2014.

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• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  Oliver Lodge

  Quality, Different, States

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). "Raymond revisado: Una nueva edición abreviada de "Raymond o la vida y la muerte" con un capítulo adicional"

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• The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

  Cervezas Rand

  Expansion, Next, Crime

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• Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.

  Steven Pinker

  Opportunity, Weakness, Causes

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• Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

  Allen Lacy

  Kids, Looks, Littles

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• No soy quien para generalizar, pero los dibujantes, como grupo, exhiben un nivel de sofisticación social generalmente asociado a las peleas de pasteles. En el instituto, cuando los futuros abogados hacían campaña para la presidencia de la clase, los futuros dibujantes alteraban minuciosamente las ilustraciones de sus libros de historia para que Robert E. Lee pareciera estar realizando un acto ilegal con su caballo.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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• As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

  Bryan Fuller

  Animal, Emotional, Thinking

  " Bryan Fuller, productor de 'Hannibal', habla de cocina caníbal, renovación y más". Entrevista con Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. 19 de septiembre de 2013.

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• It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.

  Casey Hudson

  Character, Obvious Things, Civilization

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• I love every aspect of the show. I've been very involved. It was important for me to be very involved in, you know, all of the creative elements. And so, you know, it - David, you know, being brought onto the show, you know, that - I always just wanted to make sure that we maintained the sophistication and intelligence of (the) - and the comedy that we were able to establish in the mini-series.

  Debra Messing

  Creative, Important, Elements

  Fuente: www.movieweb.com

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• Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Rocks, Brave

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• Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

  John Green

  Inspiring, Pain, Thinking

  John Green (2012). "La Falla en Nuestras Estrellas", p.35, Penguin

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