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“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.”

Humans Two Century Events University Obvious Backgrounds Recognition Instruction Inclusion

Book:The Oriental Institute

Source: The Oriental Institute

“Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.”

Running Events Shapes News Obvious

Author:Walter Lippmann

“It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.”

“Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.”

People Looks Has Beens Facts Reality Past Cases Events Currents Obvious Perceive Bias Predictable Foresight Hindsight

Book:Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

Source: Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

“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.”

Ifs Seems Loses Events Happenings Sight Difficulty Simplicity Details Obvious Hurrying Saturated Events In Life

Author:Mary Butts

“The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.”

Thinking Has Beens Matter Moments Facts Natural Events Obvious Breathing Intimate Engaged Naturalist

Book:Miracles: A Preliminary Study

Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study

“The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print. If you go to a New York Times homepage, you cannot get to a story about the Ukraine without a click-off on a banner ad or a slide show. They're not alone in that - you think you're clicking on a video about a news event and you have a 30-second ad that you have to watch before you can get to it.”