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• Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

  Michael Brune

  Technology, Energy, Century

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• By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Doors, Balance, Shifting

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.

  Stephen Fry

  Directors, Tests, Producers

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• I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I mean, some model walks down the runway in an impossible outfit, and I state the obvious ? no one is going to wear that ? and people are like, you're brilliant!.

  David Wolfe

  Fashion, Jobs, Mistake

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• Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Spiritual, Political, World

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• While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Names, Profound, Quality

  "Ease of use: a system design challenge" by L.M. Branscomb and J.C. Thomas, IBM Systems Journal. Vol 23.3, September 1984.

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• If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.

  Mary Butts

  Events In Life, Sight, Simplicity

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• It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons.
  So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

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• First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be between the movies. I wish Dakota the best, not only because of this movie. I know the expectations of these movies are enormous but we know-every member of the family, brother, sister, real father-that she's a good actress.”

  Antonio Banderas

  Brother, Father, Real

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• Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

  Drew Carey

  World, Captains, World Famous

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• Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

  Cokie Roberts

  Men, Names, Soldier

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• ... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

  George Eliot

  Reading, Brain, Proof

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• So my views on equality are pretty obvious. I mean I did play a highly complex lesbian techno DJ on TV, but I know it's not always easy to come out and tell the world where you stand.

  Sarah Shahi

  Mean, Play, Views

  "Tamala Jones And Sarah Shahi Come Out As Gay Allies" by Glennisha Morgan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2013.

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• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  Ralph Allen

  People, Painting, Feels

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• The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.

  Russell Jacoby

  Cynical, Want, Outsiders

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• I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.

  Fay Faron

  Sex, Real, Believe

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• It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Brain, Used, Used To Be

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• But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Kind, Faculty

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• In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Principles, Different

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.28, Aeterna Press

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• I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.

  Ansel Adams

  Character, Dedication, Practice

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• The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

  David Mamet

  Past, Mind, Conscious

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

  Rex Stout

  Never Quit, Spirals, Subtlety

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• With 3 percent of the worlds resources and 25 percent of the worlds demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

  Lois Capps

  Country, Energy, World

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• We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

  George Orwell

  War, Dirty, Fighting

  "Looking Back on the Spanish War". Book by George Orwell, § 1, 1943.

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• Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.

  Bill Maher

  Animal, Whales, Play

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