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"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."

"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."

"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."

"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."

"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."

"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."

"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
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"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

"If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable."

"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved."

"A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone."

"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."
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