Obvious Quotes - Page 17

• Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

  George Soros

  Unexpected, Discounts

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• The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Progress, Hazards

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• I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Shy, Knows, Ifs

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• The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

  Albert Einstein

  Difficult, Universe

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• Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.

  Chris Prentiss

  Communication, Events, Our Words

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.42, BookBaby

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• Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Reality, Glasses

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 24, 2013

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• In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.

  Marcel Proust

  Health, Medicine, Errors

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• I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.

  Brandon Bays

  Healing, Focus, Elsewhere

  Brandon Bays (2010). “Freedom Is: Liberating Your Boundless Potential”, p.113, New World Library

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• The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

  Henry James

  Fire, House, Stories

  Henry James (2010). “The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories”, p.154, Broadview Press

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• As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.

  Edwin Meese

  Integrity, Ohio, Law

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• It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Color, America, People

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  Wally Schirra

  Thinking, Politics, Publicity

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• I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not hot enough. The critics lay themselves open to an obvious retort: we tell them to go and find a hotter place.

  Arthur Eddington

  Stars, Hot, Enough

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• I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sleep, Phrases, Enough

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the conduct which is pleasing and acceptable to God. The doctrines and examples which distinguish the Order are obvious, and suited to every capacity. It is impossible for the most fastidious Mason to misunderstand, however he might slight or neglect them. It is impossible for the most superficial brother to say that he is unable to comprehend the plain precepts and the unanswerable arguments which are furnished by Freemasonry.

  William Howard Taft

  Brother, Blessed, Men

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• The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

  Peter Kreeft

  Animal, Civilization, Dying

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.11, Ignatius Press

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• When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

  Anna Sui

  Book, Inspiration, Looks

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• Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

  Sam Storms

  Rights, Adultery, Stealing

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• There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Love Is, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.125, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Poor Quality, Achievement

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Ernest W. Lefever (1989). “Perestroika: how new is Gorbachev's new thinking? : Mikhail Gorbachev's views and responses from Zbigniew Brezinski ... [and others]”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Lying, Color

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• Not all dangers are obvious.

  Leah Cypess

  Life, Danger

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• There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Shallow, More To Life, Observation

  "Seinfeld". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1989 - 1998.

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• Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that would be too bold a stroke, for it would then be obvious to all what kind of counterfeiting operation the government is running. The present system combining taxation and inflation is akin to watering the milk; too much water and the people catch on.

  Ron Paul

  Running, Government, People

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• The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.

  Naomi Wolf

  Usa, Ideas, Slave Owners

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