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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Umberto Eco It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.
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    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Alfred Loisy It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Carolyn Murphy It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Carter Heyward It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
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  • Annie Leibovitz Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Henry Miller Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Virginia Woolf Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Beth Ditto My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz No further evidence is needed to show that ''mental illness'' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Edward Dahlberg 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.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
    Headlong hall (1816)
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Boman Irani Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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