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• Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

  Ron Jaworski

  Football, Agreement, Years

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• Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, Dream, Idols

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• The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Thinking, Numbers

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Work, Teaching

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

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• Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

  David Bronstein

  Success, Moving, Chess

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• The obvious is obviously wrong.

  Joseph Granville

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• The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

  Bill Drayton

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Tests

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• I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

  Emma Watson

  Sexy, Thinking, Way

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• If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Thinking, Would Be

  "Are We Becoming Cyborgs?". Interview with Serge Schmemann, www.nytimes.com. November 30, 2012.

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• The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Giving, Attention, Ends

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• You have a firm grasp of the obvious.

  Stephen Colbert

  Firm

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• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  Barry Pepper

  Fun, Mind, Would Be

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• Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Dark, Light, Obvious Things

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• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Love Your Life, Natural, Easier

  "Vanessa Paradis Opens Up About Johnny Depp In Harper's Bazaar" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

  John Galliano

  Eye, Cutting, Men

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• The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses are probably going to be wrong. There is never any money to be made in the obvious conclusions.

  Jeff Yass

  Important, Moral, Made

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• This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.

  Pope John Paul II

  Roots, Civilization, Economic Inequality

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the good is the enemy of the better," so too "the self-evident is the enemy of the very process of clarification or understanding," not to mention the enemy of the "transcendent or ultimate."

  Kenny Smith

  Thinking, Self, Understanding

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• The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly expanding services and capacity, the need to coordinate laboratory services for 16 and soon to be 24 clinics in the Lusaka district alone, the need to automate recording and dissemination of results and the need for a robust, expandable, user friendly and technically supported LIMS system. The technology and international experience of MediSolution made MediLab an obvious choice.

  Craig Wilson

  Technology, Zambia, Choices

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• Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

  Elijah Wood

  Intense Moments, Solitude, Peppers

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Different, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.7, Psychology Press

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• But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

  Lytton Strachey

  Poetic, Psychologist, Great Poet

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

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• Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

  Mitch McConnell

  Change, Country, Iran

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• An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

  Major Taylor

  Athlete, Champion, Reason

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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