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• The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Spring, Power

  Albert Einstein (1956). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, Gramercy

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• I have wrinkles here, which are very evident. And I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?' I'd rather be the woman they're saying 'She's looking older' about than 'She's looking stoned.'

  Kate Winslet

  Wrinkles, Guy, Looks

  "Kate Winslet Forms ‘British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League’" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

  Richard Attenborough

  Mean, Two, Care

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• There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

  Nick Lachey

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Airports, Shopping, Organization

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• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

  Barbara Amiel

  Europe, Unions, Empires

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• It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me.

  Ani DiFranco

  Men, Boys, Weather

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• The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit

  Dave Hampton

  Future, Two, People

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• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of ... the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another.... Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?

  Samuel Adams

  Religious, Taken, Men

  "The Rights of the Colonists". The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, history.hanover.edu. November 20, 1772.

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Thomas Jefferson (1997). “Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision”, p.15, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.

  John Dewey

  Light, Energy, Use

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.318, SIU Press

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• A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

  Carl Rogers

  Good Life, Believe, New Experiences

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

  Louis Althusser

  Self, Facts, Characteristics

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• Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

  Jimmy Connors

  Guy, Today, Opinion

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• Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

  Gorgias

  Pain, Powerful, Joy

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• It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not occur ... protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace. Those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

  Wangari Maathai

  Giving Up, War, Fighting

  "Kenyans gather to say goodbye to Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai" by Faith Karimi, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Looks, Film

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• Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

  Godfried Danneels

  Ocean, Ice, Cities

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• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Gambling, Politics

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• We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Attachment, Important

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• It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

  Ptolemy

  Astrology, Heaven, Events

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• Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
  Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
  You Presume you are a small entity,
  But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
  You are indeed the evident book,
  By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
  Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
  What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.

  Joyce Thompson

  Dumb, Way, Three

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• The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

  Chuck Missler

  Patterns, Scripture, Steps

  Chuck Missler (2011). “Learn the Bible in 24 Hours”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

  William of Ockham

  Self, Sacred Scripture, Reason

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