"The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one."
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"Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about."
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"What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support."
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"The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive."
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"The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious."
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"You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in."
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"After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become."
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"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
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"Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect."
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"The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious."
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"Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun."
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"Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times."
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"It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet."
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"I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on."
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"...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about."
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"It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism."
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"Success is a refined study of the obvious"
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"There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious."
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"A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered."
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"That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience."
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