How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their… — Walther Rathenau Copy Share Image
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into… — John Warwick Montgomery Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the… — George Allen Copy Share Image
Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
“One cannot see from the clouded sky, even the sky is close to the eyes it drifts below, one cannot see the… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again. — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
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