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“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

“TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.”

Firsts Has Beens States Father Natural Conditions Source Authority Ancient Obvious Bored Fancy Latin Hymns Ennui Tedium

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.”

Firsts Responsibility Duty Obvious

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.”

Firsts I Can Powerful Subjects Paint Obvious Obvious Things

Author:Richard Schmid

“It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts May Obvious Valuable Contribution

Author:Morris Graves

“The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.”

Firsts Mystery Understood Obvious

Book:Honey from the Rock

Source: Honey from the Rock

“When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.”

Firsts Ideas Heard Obvious Good Ideas Foreheads Retrospect

Author:Mark Fletcher

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?”