Quotes with non-obvious

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  • Eugène Ionesco Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Bradley A. Smith By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Malcolm X Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Woody Allen Death is a state of non-being. That which is not, does not exist. Therefore death does not exist.
    My Apology
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Billy Wilder Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Al Sharpton Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bill Laswell Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Dhammapada Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Janet Malcolm Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
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  • Bernie S. Siegel For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Victor Hugo For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bruno Dumont For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Bill Bailey God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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