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“The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.”

Knows Mean States United Responsibility United States Support Share Objects Bears Weapons Jew Obvious Warfare Settlement Continuation

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.”

Knows Writing Wells Mean Stories Seems Realizing Reader Obvious Rationale

Book:Tenth of December

Source: Tenth of December

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.”

World Mean Seems Lasts Natural Clear Environmental Obvious Our Love Natural World

Book:Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

“Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.”

Ifs Mean Ideas Facts Seems Simple Race Sun Obvious Endless Agreement Wrangling

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.”

Book:Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)

Source: Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)

“Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.”

Needs Mean Lord Claims Obvious Backwards

Author:Francis Maude

“Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.”

Mean Has Beens Form Purpose Design Products Humorous Obvious Familiar Construction Artificial Pauses Implications

Book:The Two Worlds

Source: The Two Worlds

“To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.”

Ifs Believe May Mean Reality Imagination Greater Risk Havens Comfort Obvious Suits Zone Exploration Comfort Zone Parallels Risk It Suits You

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and that is obvious enough. But the expression "know everything" means nothing.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Mean Enough Able Expression Circumstances Obvious Every Man Swear

Author:Paul Valery

“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.”

People Ifs Should Mean Self Enjoy Prayer Emotional Praying Enlightenment Satisfaction Obvious Valuable Vanity Ritual Beneficial Indulgence Stimulus Observance Self Indulgence Fixation

Book:Seeker After Truth

Source: Seeker After Truth

“I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?”

Mean Doe Seems Term Obvious Theatre Discussion Officials Avant Garde

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.”

“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

People Knows Way Firsts Mean Said Two Use Law Three Father Taken Doubt Figures Fields Habit Abuse Obvious Observation Speakers Quotations Toil Remarks When In Doubt Wilde Bernard Shaw Use And Abuse

Author:Nigel Rees