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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

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

"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."

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

"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."

"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."

"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
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