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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Self, World, Firsts

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Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

Abraham Lincoln

Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

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Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?

Basil Moreau

Teacher, Teaching, Mean

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To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

Philip Neri

Fall, Pity

St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.18, St Athanasius Press

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It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Benefits, Ought

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Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

Henri Matisse

Eye, Artist, Effort

Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

Bertrand Russell

Country, Pride, Enmity

Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.170, Psychology Press

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It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong measures were not taken. So I was turned out of the house, but it was only into the garden, where I was allowed to build a small darkroom of oilcloth.

Henry Peach Robinson

Strong, Taken, Garden

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Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

William J. Clinton

Father, Struggle, Winning

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In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Father, Republic, Influence

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.419, Best Books on

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Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all
alike,
boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities
and
towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school.
Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we
consider
the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are
stupid
need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But
in
reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if
not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless,
curious, and pernicious.

John Amos Comenius

Girl, Powerful, Children

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I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.

Kurt Vonnegut

Country, War, Artist

Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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Quentin [Taranino] will say, "We've got it, but we're gonna do it one more time. Why?" And then, the entire cast and crew chimes in and says, "Because we love making movies!" He is a person who celebrates this form of expression, and it is evident in his movies, his conversations, his extensive knowledge about the history of what we do, and the actors and crew that he assembles.

Walton Goggins

Expression, Actors, Love Making

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It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and on no occasion can the so-called 'supernatural' be anything else than a completely natural law, though it may, at the moment, be above and beyond the present understanding.

Alfred Korzybski

Simple, Law, Understanding

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Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What do I want this person to do that's different from what he or she is currently doing? If we ask only this first question, punishment may seem effective because the threat or exercise of punitive force may well influence the person's behavior. However, with the second question, it becomes evident that punishment isn't likely to work: What do I want this person's reasons to be for doing what I'm asking?

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Exercise, Punishment, Two

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Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.

Carl Jung

Astrology, Judging, Personality

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What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.

Peter Shaffer

Fall, Ink, Would Be

"Amadeus". Play by Peter Shaffer, November 2, 1979.

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I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.

W. J. T. Mitchell

Moving, Thinking, Sight

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Another priest said,"Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?""Yes."Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from Dorfl."But the gods plainly do exist," said a priest."It Is Not Evident."A bolt of lightning lanced down through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. There was a sheet of flame and then a trickling noise. Dorfl's molten armour formed puddles around his white-hot feet."I Don't Call That Much Of An Argument," said Dorfl calmly, from somewhere in the clouds of smoke.

Terry Pratchett

Believe, White, Feet

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Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

Jacob Neusner

Self, People, Together

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Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

Harrison Schmitt

Climate, Facts, Global Warming

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God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

Swami Vivekananda

Self, Done, Worship

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.309, Manonmani Publishers

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Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.

Rick Steves

Home, Thinking, Self

Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.16, Avalon Travel

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That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.

Adam Smith

Hurt, Fall, Empathy

Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.7, VM eBooks

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I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

Aleksandar Hemon

Artist, Blow, Reality

"There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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