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“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

“Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.”

People Thinking Has Beens Ideas Used Process Term Simple Obvious Logical Conventional Vertical Lateral Thinking Simple Ideas

Author:Edward de Bono

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

Mean Obvious

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

“Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different”

Two Different Sometimes Matter Character Form Concepts Property Wave Obvious Remarkable Radiation Particles Duality Exhibits

Book:The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

Source: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

“It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.”

Different Light Seems Dark Color Obvious Strikes Colour Shade Vary

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.”

Differences Huge Obvious Cultural Differences

Author:David Cronenberg

“For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.”

Men Reason Facts Prove Cameras Chaos Obvious Lacking Arrangements Crude

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.”

Effort Rewards Obvious Confusion Penalties Obscure Obscurity Banality

Book:The Structure of Appearance

Source: The Structure of Appearance

“The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.”

World Mind Perfect Perfection Obvious Katie Clear Minds

Author:Byron Katie

“As our initial click fraud research study showed last year, there is an obvious problem in the online advertising world. The challenge is that I'm not sure anyone really knows the extent of the click fraud problem.”

Knows World Years Problem Lasts Challenges Study Research Obvious Advertising Not Sure Online Fraud Last Year Initials Clicks Research Study Online Advertising

Author:Flint McGlaughlin

“The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.”

Values Obvious Subtle Ads Repetition Transmission

Book:Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society

Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society

“What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.”

“Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which earthly things overhear us.”

Order Lost Language Speech Ears Obvious Storytelling Dimensions Ancestor Layers Power Of Words Overlooked Earthly Things

Author:David Abram

“Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle soundsin your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didnt know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.”

Ifs Knows Mind Body Sound Rooms Silence Building Planets Listening Quiet Degrees Music Is Ears Obvious Hearing Your Body Giants Subtle Dishes Just Listen Radar Being Played

Author:Jan Chozen Bays

“When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.”

Obvious Mysterious

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“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

“Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.”

“It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.”

Force Police Obvious Accepted Police Force

Author:Jack Lynch

“An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.”

Men States Term Economics Investing Obvious Sarcasm Sarcastic Statistics Economist

Author:Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

“Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.”

Wells Simple Common Obvious Common Things Keep It Simple Obvious Things

Author:Leo Burnett

“We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.”

Want Giving Trying Stories Fun Views Moral Obvious Entertainment Point Of View Theme Worthwhile Public Good

Author:Walt Disney

“You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.”

Knows Seems Today Becoming Obvious Sincerity Artificial Advise

Book:The Hairy Ape

Source: The Hairy Ape

“Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.”

Effort Grace Obvious Antithesis

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.”

Giving Feels Should Self Yoga Obvious Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Self Giving Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.”

Way Sometimes Women Sweet Tough Obvious Thoughtful Shells

Author:Amy Dickinson

“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

“I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.”

Feels Faces Comedy Obvious British Pulling Dressings Shouting Dressing Up Bombastic Funny Face British Comedy

Author:Ricky Gervais

“There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.”

Whole Artist Clear Industry Musician Harder Obvious

Author:Mikal Cronin

“I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.”

Thinking Want Home Parent Difficult Sacrifice Balance Obvious Our Family Home Life Working Parents

Author:Kate Hudson

“It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.”

Happens Our Lives Computer Obvious Dramatic

Author:Kate Bush

“I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.”

Thinking Happens Stuff Obvious Laying Down

Author:Joe

“Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.”

Long Would Be Answers Teacher Information Internet Obvious Google Rubbish Wrong Answers

Author:Sugata Mitra

“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

“I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.”

Reason Asking Obvious Thanks Proposal Letterman

Author:Teri Garr

“Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.”

Thinking Should Years War Policy Drug Obvious Destroyed War On Drugs

Author:Kofi Annan

“The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.”

“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

“People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening.”

People Mind Believe Long Reality Faces Fronts Happenings Obvious Arguing Being True All Time

Author:Byron Katie

“And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.”

Knows Believe Wish Reader Notion Obvious Foolish

Book:An Instance of the Fingerpost

Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost

“An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.”

Sight Soldier Obvious Naked Sensibility Saddam Affront American Soldier Dashboards

Author:Margo Kingston

“Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation”

“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

“Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”

Should Individual Example Becoming Citizens Patient Obvious Participating Dementia Health Services

Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

“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

“To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.”

Action Law Interest Obvious Lending

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.”

Ifs Whole Seems Cases Missing Obvious Symbols Artificial

Book:The good word and other words

Source: The good word and other words

“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”

World Years Has Beens Done Facts Able Left Force Break Air Terrible Essentials Ocean Army Obvious Fallen Guts Soviet Could Have Been Slaughter

Author:Winston Churchill

“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

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