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- Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain
- Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer… — Studs Terkel
- Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst
- I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance… — Percy Williams Bridgman
- That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be… — Barack Obama
- Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot. — Amartya Sen
- Don’t you see?” I said. “He could change every detail, but he couldn’t change her.” “But why?” His obtuseness frustrated me. “Because… — Nicole Krauss
- Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting… — Martha C. Nussbaum
- Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the… — John Podhoretz