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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent. ↗

— Venus Williams

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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. ↗

— Venus Williams

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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

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We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic. ↗

— David Pratt

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