Quotes 61 till 77 of 77.
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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
The Road Ahead p. 265 -
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.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) -
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) -
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
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When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
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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?
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Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?
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Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
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