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• During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

  Bo Gritz

  Team, Digging, Laos

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• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Aggravation, Office, Effort

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• [About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay in the value of the suggestion and sometimes in the obvious need for rebuttal.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Science, Interesting, Systematic

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• All good ideas are terrible...
  Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, People, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Aug 21, 2013

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• The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, Reality, Government

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• I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

  Jimmy Carr

  Saws, Helping, Shows

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.186, Penguin

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• An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with confidence that most readers will share his sense of concern and indignation. Sounding the call to action-convincing people that change is not only necessary, but actually possible-is more problematic. In protecting animals from cruelty, it is always just one step from the mainstream to the fringe. To condemn the wrong is obvious, to suggest its abolition radical.

  Matthew Scully

  Sports, Writing, Animal

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.393, St. Martin's Press

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• The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Quality, Needs, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3880, Manonmani Publishers

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• On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

  Pierre Salinger

  Alaska, President, Lovers

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• One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

  Joe Slovo

  Country, Fruit, Bears

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• I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

  Robert Scheer

  Teaching, College, Usc

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• We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.

  Cheri Huber

  Attitude, Intelligent, Choices

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• We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Blind, Blindness

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Example, Citizens, Becoming

  "Palin target renounces care rationing" by Jon Ward, www.washingtontimes.com. August 14, 2009.

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• To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Mean, Reality

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.16, Criss Jami

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• It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

  Aristotle

  Men, Simplicity, Crowds

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Obvious Things, Sound

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• Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, People, Simplicity

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• There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour. It is not so obvious as the greenness of England, but it is infinitely more varied and more delicate in tone. The landscape is a pinky mauve, a lilac, and the reflection of the sun of the particles of the atmosphere is a warm amber. So I should say our colour scheme is amber and lilac.

  Hans Heysen

  Reflection, Atmosphere, Amber

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• To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Action, Lending

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Jobs, Writing, Design

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• What's obvious to you is obvious to you.

  John Medina

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.130, Pear Press

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• The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

  James Toback

  Mistake, Ideas, Needs

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2009.

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• That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Vanity, People

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  People, Track, Care

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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