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" A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. "

" A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. "

Mary Augusta Ward

" All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after. "

" All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious. "

Daniel Mainwaring

" A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. "

" An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. "

Alfred A. Knopf

" Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. "

" As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular. "

Milo Yiannopoulos

" Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man. "

" Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious. "

" Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. "

" Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense. "

" Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious. "

David F. Houston

" Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons. "

Michael Ian Black

" Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. "

" Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things. "

Malcolm McDowell

" Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. "

" Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments. "

" Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. "

" I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. "

" I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money. "

" I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags. "

" I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men. "

" I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring. "

George Weinberg

" If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown. "

Felix Baumgartner

" I figured managing people was obvious - I'd tell someone what they needed to do and they'd do what I wanted. It turns out that's not the case. It was frustrating at first. "

" If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be. "

" If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves. "

" I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. "

Khaled Hosseini

" I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices. "

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