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“nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.”
Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
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“I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong ...”
Source : "Pete Doherty on heroin, life in Paris and his new film". Interview with Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2012.
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“All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.”
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“The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.”
Source : John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.11, Harvard Business Press
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“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
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“I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.”
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“A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.”
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“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”