Obvious Quotes - Page 27

• The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

  Bill Keller

  Media, Distraction, Social

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• The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It is clear that many banks did not fully implement these fundamental concepts. The obvious lesson is that banks need to improve their corporate governance practices and supervisors must ensure that sound corporate governance principles are thoroughly and consistently implemented.

  Daniele Nouy

  Practice, Risk, Sound

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• It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Destiny, Risk, Payback

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.831, Random House

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• Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

  Mike Royko

  Cat, Choices, Cooking

  Mike Royko (2001). “For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".

  Eustace Mullins

  Military, War, Secret

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• You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Air, Feet

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• A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

  Robert Daniel Carmichael

  Math, Statistics, Mathematics

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• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Weed, Intelligent, Giving

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

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• The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Would Be, Development

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message.

  Jill McDonald

  Play, People, Roles

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• No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

  John Calvin

  Moving, Men, Surveys

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Proud, Nonsense

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

  Jason Calacanis

  Funny, Thoughtful, Care

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• As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Shopping, Sound, Experts

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• When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.

  Tony Benn

  Change, Government, Europe

  "Tony Benn: His views on socialism, Europe, war and writing", www.bbc.co.uk. March 14, 2014.

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• Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Opportunity, World, Best Opportunity

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• Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

  Jeff Bezos

  All Time, Firm

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

  Steven Brust

  Two, Decision, Action

  Steven Brust (2002). “The Book of Taltos”, p.384, Penguin

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• Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Discovery, Psychological

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• Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.

  David Tudor

  Ordinary, Lines, Input

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• The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the same in every country. After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. But, in all honesty, anti-Semitism in France has always remained on a minimal level, at the verbal level only. It never went as far as pogroms.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Country, Honesty, Unique

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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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• Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Mean, Stories

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.29, A&C Black

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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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