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• The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.

  Harold Innis

  Communication, Essentials, Elements

  "Changing Concepts of Time". Book by Harold Innis, p. 15, 1952.

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• There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton.

  Matt Labash

  Election, Republican, Clinton

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• In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

  Humphry Davy

  Matter, Causes, Energy

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• The work of the world is common as mud.
  Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
  But the thing worth doing well done
  has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

  Marge Piercy

  Dust, Hands, Done

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf

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• Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

  Chuck Close

  Innovation, Painting, Results

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• And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

  Robert Towne

  Thinking, Directors, Way

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• In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Movement, Modesty

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• I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Southern, Doubt

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.

  Ruskin Bond

  Character, Animal, Unique

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• Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Mind, Tuition

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• Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

  Rob Pike

  Self, Data, Algorithms

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• One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Kings, Insanity, Rebel

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, November 13, 1792.

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• Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.

  Hugo Ball

  Rain, Self, Tree

  Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.221, Univ of California Press

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• The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

  Carl Sagan

  Ignorance, Media, Sound

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Vices, Links

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.14, CUA Press

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• It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived

  Paul Bourget

  Motivation, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Self, Mind

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism”, p.150

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• I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

  Christine Caine

  Life, Being Real, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Mar 31, 2015

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• Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

  Karen Armstrong

  Appreciation, Art, Hard Work

  Karen Armstrong (2009). “The Case for God”, p.19, Knopf Canada

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• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Culture, Politician, Poet

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• A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Life, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant", where we ourselves no longer divide ourselves into observer and observed. Then the dreamer is completely dissolved in his reverie. His reverie is his silent life. It is that silent peace which the poet wants to convey to us.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Peace, Order

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• Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Self, Accepted

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• Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Party, Law, Custody

  Simon Greenleaf (1847). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.7

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• Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.

  Robert Southey

  Morning, Bed, Kick Ass

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.149

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