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• I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it's obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Flip, Republican, Weak

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• We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Individual, States

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• Why don't I have enough money? The answer is obvious. Money is how people are measured. What you are worth is what you are worth. The reason I am not worth very much is because I am not worth very much. Nothing could be simpler.

  John S. Hall

  People, Answers, Reason

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

  Matina Horner

  Life, Thinking, Connections

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• It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.

  Fabio Capello

  Soccer, Football, Rain

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• Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.

  Bob Cousy

  Sports, Years, Lucky

  Interview with Clark Booth, magazine.holycross.edu. 2009.

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• To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Justice

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• In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands of a few, who often are not owners but only the trustees and managing directors of invested funds which they administer according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money.

  Pope Pius XI

  Hands, Credit, Politics

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• Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Buddhist

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• The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Forever, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Literature

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• To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily understand that virtue is an advantage, and that vice is an injury to beings of the species.

  Jean Meslier

  Men, Common Sense, Atheism

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• As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the Russians from getting deeply into Europe.

  Michael Beschloss

  War, Europe, United States

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• I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

  Errol Morris

  Self, People, Deception

  Source: collider.com

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• You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.

  William Monahan

  People, Creative, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Kitchen, Dining, Want

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• I definitely prefer things to be dark, I definitely prefer things to not be particularly obvious. I like a lot of mystery in music, and I like it when things don't sound just like what they sound like always. But at the same time I like everything to sound very earnest and honest. So I don't really think that I have a definite stamp, but if people see that, that's awesome.

  John Congleton

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "John Congleton: Meet Indie Rock's Unsung Hero Of 2011". Interview with Mike Katzif, www.npr.org. December 23, 2011.

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• But once I saw them [Jackson 5 during audition], I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so special, mainly because of the lead singer, nine-year-old Michael Jackson. And it was just so obvious to me that he was a star.

  Berry Gordy

  Stars, Years, Special

  Source: www.npr.org

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• College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

  John Cage

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.61, Wesleyan University Press

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• Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ideas, Creative, Insecurity

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• It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

  Terry McMillan

  School, Boys, Class

  Terry McMillan (2013). “Who Asked You?”, p.77, Penguin

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• The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
  obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Men, Emotional, Long

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.32, Penguin

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• I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Fighting, Church

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• Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

  e. e. cummings

  Father, Mean, Eye

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