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• My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Support, Parent, Criminals

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

  Robert Genn

  Suggestions, Mystery, Description

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• I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

  Jock Sturges

  Erotic, Sensual, Birth

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Vegetables, Connections, Gutters

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• It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

  Bill Hicks

  Party, America, Political

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• It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  World, Might, Chance

  "Play to Live: Lectures of Alan Watts". Book edited by Mark Watts, December 1, 1982.

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't write 'etc'. Make an effort to exhaust the subject, even if that seems grotesque, or pointless, or stupid. You still haven't looked at anything, you've merely picked out what you've long ago picked out.

  Georges Perec

  Stupid, Writing, Long Ago

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• No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Thinking, Trying, Matter

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• Haruhi: Whaddaya think I am?! The Twins: To us? Why that's obvious-- a toy!

  Bisco Hatori

  Thinking, Toys, Twins

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• From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Sky, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.193, Penguin UK

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• You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.

  William Goldman

  Moving, Men, Black

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.205, A&C Black

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• There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

  Amish Tripathi

  Reality, Opposites, Perception

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• It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Sneakers, Different

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• There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Rocks, Cities, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

  Graeme Simsion

  Failing, Humans

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
  We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
  Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

  Amory Lovins

  Inspirational, Business, Design

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• One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Doe

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• It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Action, Surprise

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.39, Routledge

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• If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

  Eamon Duffy

  Knowing, History, Comfort

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• Not all dangers are obvious.

  Leah Cypess

  Life, Danger

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• If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.

  Gangaji

  Views, Suffering, Energy

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• Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

  David F. Houston

  United States, Corn, Crops

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• It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Agriculture, Important, Crops

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• One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

  Michael Bywater

  Writing, History, People

  "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" by Michael Bywater, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.

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