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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal

Love Truth Truth Is Unless We Cannot Obscure Know Falsehood Times Established Cannot

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. Edward R. Murrow

See Seems Obscure Takes Longer Obvious Eventually

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. Andrea Dworkin

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory People Opportunities Filter Our Our Lives Tell Foggy See Rather More Through Obscure Writer Self-Deception Because End Than Happened In The End Which Interested Themselves Lives Actually

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Tom Clancy

Life You Change World Will Nothing Responsibilities Dream Obscure Around Real Erase May Duties Your Your Dream Need

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. Sydney Smith

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. Horace

Become Obscure Concise Labouring

A Constitution should be short and obscure. Napoleon Bonaparte

Constitution Obscure Short Should

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. Henry Rollins

Music Experience Space Darkest Free Unwanted Own Other Distractions My Own Tend Obscure Part Most Venue Effort Any Conversations Gravitate

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Time Generation Negative Waste Time This Generation Immense Obscure Supposed Concentrating Obvious Capacity Speakers Ignoring Platitudes Waste

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. David Seabury

Thoughts You Simple Think Complex Seem Through Obscure Clear Comradeship Make Intellectual Quite Where Place Requires Your

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. Roy L. Smith

People More More People Troubled Obscure Than Scripture Plain

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies. Virginia Postrel

Strange Rare Somewhere Shoes Enjoy Everyone Books Statistical At Least One Collect Memorabilia Religious Religious Beliefs Wear Pretty Tail Obscure Most Read Unusual Least Lots Esoteric Diseases May Middle Hold Curves Movies Them Cluster Us Much Beliefs Suffer Bell

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. Adam Ferguson

Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did. Adam McKay

Distract Spent Backing Only Purpose Fact Obscure Identical Mitt Mitt Romney George Been George W George W. Bush Did Romney Bush Agenda Billions

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid. Andrew Bird

History Topic Kid Obscure Since Like Know Most Always Doing Been Any Impulse Maybe Just Whether Explain Places Little Little Kid Really Choose Less Traveled Why

I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them. Art Alexakis

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Baltasar Gracian

Become Strive Obscure Brief

I remember hoping there'd be 10 people at a show in 1998 when there was an incredible write-up in the local weekly. I don't want to go back to that period of being obscure and having nobody know who I am, let alone have to struggle to get people to come to the show. Ben Gibbard

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