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“Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.”

Men Believe Action Results Modern Produce Ego Obvious Active Productive Modern Man

Book:Love and Living

Source: Love and Living

“It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.”

Justice Responsible Obvious Innocent

Book:Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive

Source: Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive

“The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.”

Knows Believe Eye Accepting Focus Majority Photographer Obvious

Author:Duane Michals

“No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.”

People Knows Country Reason England Climate Obvious Apples Valleys Temper Maxims New England Orchard Oregon

Book:Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read

Source: Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read

“Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.”

Way Done Theory Research Obvious Determined Requirements Predictable Fashionable Approved

Author:Celia Green

“In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.”

States Political Next Grows United United States Growing Up Information News Opposites Obvious Following Canada

Author:Rick Mercer

“If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.”

Ifs Obvious

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.”

Left Needed My Family Obvious Miami

Author:Ruben Blades

“Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.”

Mean States Seems Law Choices Poor Policy Changed Obvious Abortion Abortion Laws

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.”

Want Giving Persons Ideas Matter Obvious Who I Am Subtle

Author:Judith Guest

“Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.”

Way Girl Concerned Obvious Accustomed

Book:You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

Source: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

“So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.”

Ifs Way Should Ideas Enough Happens Earth Form Life Is Easy Simple Path Planets Should Have Tests Obvious Transition Straightforward Life Is Simple Life Is Easy

Author:Paul Davies

“Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.”

Source: Home and exile and other selections

“... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.”

Ifs Christian Suffering Lord Glory Obvious Deeds Believer Ashamed Orthodox Absent Our Lord Orthodox Christian

Author:Symeon the New Theologian

“It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".”

People Self Interesting Forgotten Obvious

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.”

Kids Study Failing Fields Obvious Dues Wondrous Preconceptions

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related content. Why? Many of our readers are coming to the obvious conclusion that tape, despite the negative marketing, is still an optimal way to protect and archive their information.”

World Way Stills Seeing Information Reader Right Now Protect Negative Marketing Obvious Conclusion Despite Related Tape Traffic Blogs Storage Archives Optimal

Author:George Arthur Crump

“The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.”

Used Reading Literature Society Method Sells Obvious Significant Automobile Toothpaste

Book:The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959

Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959

“The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.”

World America Goal Interest Dangerous Sake Obvious Submit Envious Barbarians Ungrateful

Author:Breyten Breytenbach

“I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.”

Thinking Knows Years Football Overcoming Mark Obvious Question Mark Time Will Tell

Author:Brett Favre

“I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.”

People Thinking Knows Long Religious Dangerous Taught Obvious Sane Fanaticism Taught Us

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.”

Sometimes Reality Pages Scripts Obvious Disbelief Suspension Suspension Of Disbelief

Author:Gillian Anderson

“It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.”

Children Government Running Ability Teach Our Children Obvious Stupidity Dumb

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.”

People Thinking Fighting Sides Building Obvious Fake Remove Slipping

Author:Ellen Page

“Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.”

Children Littles Stills Play Games Effects Tvs Obvious Monsters Video Aggressive

Author:Hugh Mackay

“It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.”

War Country States Easy Obvious

Author:Ahmed Ben Bella

“It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.”

Real Levels Lows Obvious Capability Low Level

Author:Alfred Bester

“Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.”

Made Obvious Magazines Made It Tablets Lease

Author:Jeffrey Bewkes

“Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.”

Play Republican Taxes Obvious Get Back Reduction Recessions Back To Work Told You So

Author:Marsha Blackburn

“I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.”

Knows Years Couple Sells Property Investment Obvious

Author:Melanie Brown

“Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.”

Made Reader Obvious

Author:Aidan Chambers

“The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.”

Doe Facts Values Taken Advantage Obvious Labour Capitalist Surplus Workmen Taken Advantage

Book:My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes

Source: My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes

“My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.”

Men Reason Obvious

Author:Randy Castillo

“I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.”

Knows Interest Know How Rich Republican Vote Obvious

Author:Vivian Campbell

“Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.”

Care Voice Silence Policy Obvious Access Meaningful Health Care Discussion Opponents Spokes Flukes Reproductive Health

Author:Sandra Fluke

“In art, the obvious is a sin.”

Art Sin Obvious

Book:On Film Editing

Source: On Film Editing

“As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.”

Helping Able Sound Obvious Stores Experts Shopping Bike Specialty

Author:Patrick Dempsey

“I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.”

People Thinking Different Media Type Obvious Data Evolve Users Files Audio Mp3 Napster

Author:Shawn Fanning

“Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.”

Political Obvious Campaigns Presidential Coal Political Power Presidential Campaign

Author:Jeff Goodell

“After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.”

Believe Cases Novel Mystery College Obvious Electoral College

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.”

Facts Process Memories Practice Obvious Practicals Related Speculation Explicit

Author:Samuel Alexander

“I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Doe Reality Care Fashion Obvious Harm Stores Luxury Designer Goods Who Cares Auras Good Food Luxury Goods

Author:Andre Balazs

“Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.”

Science Certain Events Revolution Development Decided Bounds Obvious Broke Thinker

Book:Against Method

Source: Against Method

“A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.”

People Thinking Men Giving Mean Doe Sex Rights Trouble He Man Office Regard Obvious Selfish Doing Good Respecting Others Unselfishness Screwtape Letters Selfish Men Good Office

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.”

Thinking Way Two Ideas Sometimes Problem Film Order Culture Three Hours Obvious Expected Phrases Fundamentalism

Author:Jane Campion

“I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.”

Feels Different Film Goal Support Alive Ocean Response Obvious Piano

Author:Jane Campion

“The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.”

Facts Used Interesting Influence Majors Obvious Stravinsky

Author:Lukas Foss

“The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.”

Doe Choices Special Unique Bills Obvious Something Special

Author:Justin Halpern

“Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.”

Thinking Guy Obvious

Author:Katherine Heigl

“I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.”

Way Want Trying Hard Film Artist Easy Black Challenges White Perfect Watches Audience Balance Smart Silent Obvious Artistic Black And White Elitist

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

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