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• Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Keys

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• Did evangelical Christians mistake Donald Trump's hairpiece for a halo, while ignoring the obvious signs that he worships Mammon?

  Michael R. Burch

  Christian, Mistake, Halos

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• Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Publish, Seems

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• You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Song, Falling In Love, Thinking

  "Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Reason, Objects, Vessel

  Claes Oldenburg (1969). “Claes Oldenburg, Constructions, Models, and Drawings: Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, April 30-May 31, 1969”

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• Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, States, Evidence

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.154, Routledge

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• The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Resistance, Charm, Evidence

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• The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

  David Attenborough

  People, Needs, Schemes

  "This heaving planet" by David Attenborough, www.newstatesman.com. April 27, 2011.

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• That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Differences, Would Be

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• The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  People, Fool

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• That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.

  Jane Jacobs

  Order, Cities, Numbers

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• One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing? These are things that are very subtle and that jazz musician appreciate in a particular way. I appreciate the way Tommy Flanagan swings, the way that Barry Harris swings, the great pulse that Hank Jones and Bill Evans have - end every one of them is different.

  Chuck Israels

  Swings, People, Appreciate

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• The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Self, Rational

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• We're trying to make our current house look domestic so that somebody will want to buy it. We're making a lot of simple, obvious improvements that never would have occurred to us to make while we actually lived here, because, tragically, we both happen to be domestically impaired. If we were birds, our nest would consist of a single twig with the eggs attached via Scotch tape.

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Eggs, Scotch

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.71, Crown Archetype

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• I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

  Shailene Woodley

  Sacred, Kind, Feels

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

  Adam Gopnik

  Coffee, Unique, Ideas

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.

  Matthew Rhys

  Acting, Sound, Giants

  "‘The Americans’ star Matthew Rhys: Philip would defect ‘in a heartbeat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 4, 2015.

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• There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

  Liz Brixius

  Drinking, Writing, Romance

  Source: deadline.com

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• I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

  Todd Haynes

  Play, Expectations, Secret

  Source: collider.com

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• I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.

  Nhat Hanh

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• The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate.  When the Witness or the soul is finally undone, then the Witness dissolves into everything that is witnessed.  The subject/object duality collapses and there is only pure nondual awareness, which is very simple, very obvious.

  Ken Wilber

  Simple, Meditation, Soul

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fall, Men, Numbers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  May, Constitution, Compass

  Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, 23 Feb. 1791

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• We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Order, Data

  "The Wellspring of Reality". "Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking" by Buckminster Fuller, 1975.

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• If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Cheer, Hands

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