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“It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.”

America Political Party Obvious Political Parties

“It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.”

World Whole Might Chance Hell Obvious Whole World

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.”

“Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't write 'etc'. Make an effort to exhaust the subject, even if that seems grotesque, or pointless, or stupid. You still haven't looked at anything, you've merely picked out what you've long ago picked out.”

Ifs Writing Long Stills Seems Force Interest Common Effort Subjects Havens Stupid Clothes Obvious Shops Etc Long Ago Pointless Grotesque Antiques

Author:Georges Perec

“Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.”

Thinking Next Found Areas Obvious Candidates Introspection Time To Think

Author:Megyn Kelly

“And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.”

Way Made Today White Conditions Elements Series Obvious Spain Similarity

Author:Juan Goytisolo

“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”

Should Political Results Violence Rocks Produce Waste Obvious Propaganda Thrown Cocktails Molotov Molotov Cocktail Random Violence

Author:Abbie Hoffman

“If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.”

Ifs Suffering Energy Views Attention Willing Conscious Oneself Obvious Point Of View Dialogue Instant Internals Fullness Richness

Author:Gangaji

“Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.”

States United United States Products Importance Productions Obvious Range Quantity Corn Corny Crops

Author:David F. Houston

“It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.”

Important Conditions Productions Obvious Agriculture Crops Staples

Author:David F. Houston

“There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.”

Stills Two Differences Blessing Obvious Enjoyed Latter Superiority Envied

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.”

Psychology Obvious

Author:Robert Sternberg

“It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.”

World Stills Self Reason Facts Fun Chance Wonder Century Figures Theory Ultimate Obvious Accepted Psychological Winner Ironic Evident Tournaments Scientific Facts

Author:Fred Hoyle

“We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?”

World Needs Should May Self Asks Names Democracy Rights Century Taxes Models Crisis Blow Obvious Versions Rational Chinese Protest Worth It Aftermath 18th Century Pathology

Author:Noah Feldman

“It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.”

Humans Reading Dog Mirrors Obvious Companion Stable Unstable

Book:Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life

Source: Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life

“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.”

“What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.”

Ifs Littles Motivation Easy Difficult Judgment Difficulty Obvious

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.”

Looks Philosophy Study Investing Obvious Preparation Statistics Studying History

Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.”

Source: The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry

“Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.”

Needs Made Use Desire All Things Obvious All Time

Author:Dogen

“When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.”

Thinking Giving Doe Made Enough Problem Bigs Running Plans Havens Solutions Discovery Give Me Obvious Physics Weekend Relaxed Time To Think Family Problems

Author:Wolfgang Ketterle

“From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts”

Made War Fighting Nations Views Effort Enemy Power Fronts Obvious Opening

Author:Hideki Tojo

“Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.”

Obvious Treacherous

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.”

Mind Children Movement Development Obvious

Author:Maria Montessori

“The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.”

Should May Eye Differences Seeing Subjects Return Photography Cameras Photographer Disappointment Obvious Lenses

Book:Photographic seeing

Source: Photographic seeing

“Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.”

People Believe Lying Wealth Accepting Groups Security Comfortable Tradition Fruit Privilege Obvious Lovely Entitled Prestige

Author:Steven Biko

“At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.”

Different Facts Challenges Greater Disease Treats Obvious Attempting Hiv Complication Haiti Clinicians

Author:Paul Farmer

“That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will be self deceiving and a waste of time to advocate dialogue with those who are not ready to listen, because it is obvious that the freedom of millions is not a commodity subject to bargaining. It is better to die free than to live as slaves.”

Men Self Dream Dies Millions Subjects Produce Ready Waste Slave Lifetime Satisfaction Obvious Dialogue Wasting Time Deceiving Fulfilled Aspire Commodity Not Ready Bargaining

Author:Haile Selassie

“Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.”

Problem Obvious Cures Conspiracy Secrecy Transparency Access To Information

Book:WWW: Watch

Source: WWW: Watch

“As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once?”

Self Feelings Awareness Right Now Empty Obvious Relax Contractions

Book:The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings

Source: The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings

“The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.”

Knows Whole Would Be Able Passion Evil Existence Equal Ultimate Unity Paint Obvious Ugly Justify Items Harmonious Rapture Disdain Tokens Gallant Ultimate Truth

Author:Aleister Crowley

“You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!”

Humans Young Human Beings Walks Streets Possibility Months Becoming Conscious Angel Fishes Obvious Nine Sheep Worms Belly Ants Self Conscious Nine Months

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.”

Growth Investing Profit Obvious Investors Translate Prospects

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.”

People Knows Investing Obvious Winner

Author:Charlie Munger

“Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.”

Writing Process Written Pages Weakness Argument Obvious Discussion Overlooked Thought Process

Book:Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81

Source: Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81

“Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.”

Kind Two Different Stuff Race Color Behavior Skins Obvious Related Different Things Preference Skin Color Two Different Things

Author:James Lankford

“To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.”

Giving Long Seems Literature Effort Media Policy Mass Misery Oneself Obvious Communicate Collectives Blocked Impunity Mass Media Illiteracy

Book:Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Source: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.”

Made War Ends House White Decision Cold Bases Congress Obvious White House Cold War

Author:Malcolm Wallop

“All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.”

Ideas Seems Obvious Great Idea

Author:Steve Case

“Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.”

Source: Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving

“It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.”

Ifs Enough Whole Sound Perfect Player Golf Obvious Target Swings Enough Time Setups Golf Swing

Author:Nick Faldo

“The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.”

Hard States Goal Practice Everyday Obvious Champion Wrestling Exhaustion Wrestler Ncaa Motivational Wrestling

Author:Dan Gable

“Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.”

People Needs Should Dream Reality Able Desire Opportunity Attitude Steps Creativity Technology Worry Design Habit Bounds Obvious Intuition Designer Good Design Changing Attitude

Author:Dieter Rams

“The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.”

Ifs Needs Should Important Quality Teach Late Management Important Things Obvious Manage Guru Quality Management

Author:Alfie Kohn

“Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.”

Needs Looks Done Cutting Middle Century Relation Climate Climate Change Obvious Arrangements Emissions Delivering Equitable

Author:Peter Garrett

“I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.”

Thinking Feels Writing May Teach Teacher Risk Identity Drama Criticism Trade Critics Obvious Profession Compulsion Convenience

Author:Richard Gilman

“The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?'.”

Ifs Want Needs Humans Children Doe Stills Care Term Community Answers Conflict Structure Obvious Propose Child Care

Author:Jean Baker Miller

“When in doubt, do the obvious.”

Women Doubt Obvious When In Doubt

Author:Joy Browne

“Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.”

People Trying Firsts Doe Focus Changed Football Metaphor Obvious I Realized Score Serving Serving Others Professional Life Touchdowns Halftime

Author:Marc Trestman

“If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.”

Ifs Form Objects Function Obvious

Author:Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

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