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• Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

  Deborah Tannen

  Girl, Way, Concerned

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.

  Paul Davies

  Simple, Should Have, Ideas

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• Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Kids, Fields, Study

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2011

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• Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related content. Why? Many of our readers are coming to the obvious conclusion that tape, despite the negative marketing, is still an optimal way to protect and archive their information.

  George Arthur Crump

  Marketing, Archives, Negative

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• The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Society, Literature

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press

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• The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  America, Goal, Ungrateful

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• I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Thinking, Years

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• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Thinking, Taught Us

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• Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

  Gillian Anderson

  Reality, Pages, Scripts

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• It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Running, Children, Government

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

  Ellen Page

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

  Hugh Mackay

  Children, Games, Play

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• It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, War, Easy

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• It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

  Alfred Bester

  Real, Levels, Lows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Magazines, Tablets, Made

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• Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Play, Republican, Back To Work

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• I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

  Melanie Brown

  Couple, Years, Investment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

  Edward Carpenter

  Taken, Doe, Facts

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

  Randy Castillo

  Men, Reason

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• I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

  Vivian Campbell

  Vote, Republican, Rich

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• As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Shopping, Sound, Experts

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• I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Mp3, Media

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

  Jeff Goodell

  Presidential, Political, Campaigns

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• After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Believe, College, Mystery

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