Obvious Quotes

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Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness… — Valerie Plame
Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's… — Aaron Swartz
That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We… — Pope Benedict XVI
My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all… — Paul Feyerabend
I am running for president because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth of the federal… — Harry Browne
Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the… — Noam Chomsky
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,… — Grant Morrison
Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming… — Michael J. Fox
Iâ€™ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. Itâ€™s more interesting… — Alfred Hitchcock
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was… — June Jordan
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of… — Lawrence Kohlberg
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that… — Georges Bernanos
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly… — Desmond Tutu
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist,… — T. Colin Campbell
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C.S. Lewis
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of… — Edwin A. Locke
A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of… — Sam Vaknin
The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything… — Unknown Author
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to… — Unknown Author

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