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• Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Artist, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.202, Hoover Press

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• It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Running, Children, Want

  "What I've Learned: Carolyn Murphy" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!

  Julia Quinn

  Writing, Character, Too Much

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• So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.

  Betty White

  Writing, Play, Laughing

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• I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Invisible, Cgi, Ifs

  "COMIC-CON 2006: Throwing Around Some Stardust with Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. July 23, 2006.

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• There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Differences, Essentials

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Skeletons, Essence

  "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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• If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.

  Seth Godin

  Organization, Ideas, Knowing

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• The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

  Derek Bok

  College, Principles, Purpose

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  Ian Frazier

  Texas, Feelings, Secret

  "On Texas" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

  Noah Feldman

  Memories, Self, Practice

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• It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Simple, Truth Is, Reason

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• Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Nice, Believe, Vanity

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• I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.

  Yael Naim

  Real, Home, School

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• If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Angry, Ifs

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• If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Passion, Law

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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• It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Lessons, Want

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• It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Persistence, Thug

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• People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

  Mark Thomas

  Jobs, Thinking, Obvious Things

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• He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.15

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• Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

  George Steiner

  Poetry, Use, Records

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• Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Oxygen, Ice, Breathing

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

  Lynn Shelton

  Men, Thinking, Directors

  "Interview with Lynn Shelton, Director of Humpday". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 08, 2009.

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• Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

  Graydon Carter

  Television, Benefits, Intimacy

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