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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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• Everything is self-evident.

  Rene Descartes

  Reality, Self

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• You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Believe, Reality

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

  Beatrice M. Hinkle

  Reality, Men, Resistance

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• Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Rain, Cereal

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• The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of the enemy; for when God sends an inspiration, the very first effect of it is to infuse a spirit of docility.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spring, Inspiration, Temptation

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• What makes us exceptional - what makes us American - is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

  Barack Obama

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Rights

  Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 21, 2013.

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• For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

  Barack Obama

  Self, People, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  People, Pro Life, Soul

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Sex, Men

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• "For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

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• The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

  H. G. Wells

  Taken, Character, World Religions

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• Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

  John Brown

  War, Self, Independence

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.234

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• After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.

  Jim Ryun

  Government, Dangerous World, Challenges

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• If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Sake, Ifs

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.

  Erik Satie

  Music, School, Animal

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• Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

  Angelina Grimke

  Jesus, Men, Rights

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• If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

  William Lane Craig

  Existence, Gods Will, Seeking God

  William Lane Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2003). “God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

  Stephen Covey

  Pain, Self, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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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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• It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

  Fred F. Fielding

  Believe, Years, Political

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