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• I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

  Emma Watson

  Sexy, Thinking, Way

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• The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Giving, Attention, Ends

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• You have a firm grasp of the obvious.

  Stephen Colbert

  Firm

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• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  Barry Pepper

  Fun, Mind, Would Be

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• Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Dark, Light, Obvious Things

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• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Love Your Life, Natural, Easier

  "Vanessa Paradis Opens Up About Johnny Depp In Harper's Bazaar" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

  John Galliano

  Eye, Cutting, Men

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• The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses are probably going to be wrong. There is never any money to be made in the obvious conclusions.

  Jeff Yass

  Important, Moral, Made

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• This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.

  Pope John Paul II

  Roots, Civilization, Economic Inequality

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the good is the enemy of the better," so too "the self-evident is the enemy of the very process of clarification or understanding," not to mention the enemy of the "transcendent or ultimate."

  Kenny Smith

  Thinking, Self, Understanding

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• The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly expanding services and capacity, the need to coordinate laboratory services for 16 and soon to be 24 clinics in the Lusaka district alone, the need to automate recording and dissemination of results and the need for a robust, expandable, user friendly and technically supported LIMS system. The technology and international experience of MediSolution made MediLab an obvious choice.

  Craig Wilson

  Technology, Zambia, Choices

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• It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Different, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.7, Psychology Press

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• But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

  Lytton Strachey

  Poetic, Psychologist, Great Poet

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

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• Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

  Mitch McConnell

  Change, Country, Iran

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• An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

  Major Taylor

  Athlete, Champion, Reason

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

  Bill Veeck

  Bats, Answers, Able

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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• The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock.

  Jim Keith

  Eugenics, Majority, Germany

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.12, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• You may have difficulty in obtaining some of these (non-drug) therapies..because the FDA has literally pressured Congress, under the guise of protecting the public, to keep time-honoured cultural and natural therapies out of the hands of the general public. If you look at the record of the FDA, it becomes obvious they are serving interests other than yours and mine.

  Robert Willner

  Fda, Hands, Drug

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• At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Thinking, Understanding

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• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  Luciano Berio

  Spiritual, Ears, Demand

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• But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

  James Henry Breasted

  Lonely, Father, Land

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• After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Unique, People, World

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• The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Work

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• My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

  Juan Cole

  Past, News, Exit

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• If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Doing You

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