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  • The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
  • Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?
  • It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
  • Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
  • An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
  • I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.
  • The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
  • The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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  • Kofi Annan 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.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Dale Carnegie I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Karl Marx A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Anita Brookner A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Roger Bacon All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Alfred A. Knopf An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
    Alfred A. Knopf
     
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  • Kahlil Gibran Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Barbara Delinsky As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Becki Newton I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg I'm excited that 'The Good Guy' is getting distribution because indie movies they're not - people ran out of money and they're not making these movies anymore. It's all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Beth Gutcheon I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.
    Beth Gutcheon
     
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  • B. W. Powe If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 92
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Alan Perlis In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
    Alan Perlis
    American computer scientist and professor (1922 - 1990)
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  • Bernard Bailyn In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 302
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Cynthia Ozick In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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