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• It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

  David F. Houston

  Agriculture, Important, Crops

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• There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

  Robert Sternberg

  Psychology

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• It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.

  Fred Hoyle

  Fun, Self, Ironic

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• We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?

  Noah Feldman

  Blow, Rights, Self

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• It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Reading, Mirrors

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.19, Crown Archetype

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• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.

  Gunther Schuller

  Inspiration, Thinking, Color

  "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.

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• What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.

  David Hume

  Motivation, Littles, Judgment

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.335, 谷月社

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• As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

  Peter Lynch

  Philosophy, Preparation, Looks

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Years, Long

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.30, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

  Dogen

  Desire, Needs, Use

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• From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Fighting, Power

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• Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Treacherous

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2010). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.272, Routledge

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• Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

  Steven Biko

  Lying, Believe, People

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• At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Different, Hiv

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• Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Problem, Conspiracy, Secrecy

  Robert J. Sawyer (2010). “WWW: Watch”, p.254, Penguin

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• As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once?

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Feelings, Relax

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.273, Shambhala Publications

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• You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

  Hermann Hesse

  Angel, Sheep, Nine

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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• Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

  Benjamin Graham

  Growth, Investing, Profit

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Investing, Winner

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• Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

  Hyman Rickover

  Writing, Weakness, Pages

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81”

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• Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

  James Lankford

  Race, Skin Color, Two

  "GOP Rep. Lankford Explains Why It Should Be Legal To Fire Someone For Being Gay: ‘It’s A Choice Issue’". thinkprogress.org. May 14, 2012.

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• To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Media, Long, Giving

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.14, NYU Press

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• So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

  Malcolm Wallop

  War, White, House

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview With Rick Henderson, William “Chip” Mellor, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

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• All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

  Steve Case

  Ideas, Great Idea, Seems

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• Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

  George Polya

  Knowledge, Math, Obvious Things

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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