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The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

— Brian Greene

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

— Khalil Gibran

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

— Joseph de Maistre

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

— C. P. Scott

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