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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness
Life
Freedom
Rights
Liberty
Unalienable
Men
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Equal
Self-Evident
Truths
Endowed
Hold
Created
Certain
Creator
Among
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth
Three
First
Through
Self-Evident
Accepted
Passes
Opposed
Being
Stages
Ridiculed
Second
Violently
Third
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi
Truth
Nature
You
Ignorance
Truth Is
Remove
Clear
Soon
Self-Evident
Shines
Surround
Cobweb
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
God
Logical
Darkness
Light
Assumptions
Immediate
Insight
Something
He
Hypothesis
Self-Evident
Sought
Derived
Reason
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
Aristotle
Other
Statement
Statements
Directly
Self-Evident
Because
Proved
Either
Persuasive
Appears
Credible
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Property
Rights
Men
Before
Whatever
Other
Conspiring
Had
Individuals
Over
Self-Evident
Calling
Any
Which
Acquire
Themselves
Number
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women
Men
Men And Women
Equal
Self-Evident
Women Are
Truths
Hold
Created
There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.
Michael Nesmith
Seen
Research
Bit
Out
Systems
Logic
Take
Self-Evident
Fairly
Industry
Very
Prize
Little
Little Bit
Might
Straightforward
Certain
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
Anthony Trollope
Man
He
Self-Evident
Fit
Done
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer
Miracles
Become
Everything
Possible
Self-Evident
Ceases
Familiar
Where
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Family
Long
Before
Live
Society
State
Way
Ourselves
Through
Self-Evident
Self-Examination
Understand
Process
Which
Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?
James B. Stewart
Wisdom
Generation
Rates
Various
Never
Over
Self-Evident
None
Passed
Been
Years
Them
Taxed
Lower
Should
Even
Why
It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.
James Howard Kunstler
Truth
You
Problems
Resources
Run
Able
Prime
Know
Self-Evident
Permanent
Tragic
American
Going
Just
Oil
Unfortunate
Suburbs
Them
Gasoline
Needed
Attrition through enforcement is simply the self-evident principle that if you ratchet up the level of enforcement and make it more difficult to break the law, fewer people will continue to break the law.
Kris Kobach
You
People
Law
Will
Difficult
More
Through
Simply
Make
Self-Evident
Principle
Attrition
Continue
Up
Fewer
Break
Enforcement
Level
People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.
Rachel Johnson
Buy
You
People
Think
Everybody
Say
Bad
Magazine
About
Seems
Nobody
Self-Evident
Talking
Talks
Because
Always
Going
Want
Should
Publicity
Ever
Right
Thing
Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
Said Nursi
Future
Law
Become
Past
Creation
Evident
Something
Fact
Tendency
Through
Perfection
Development
Bound
Towards
Self-Evident
Gradual
May
Established
In The Past
Theoretical
Innate
Present
When it comes to gang-based child exploitation, it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent high-profile cases, there is a high proportion of men that are of Pakistani heritage.
Sajid Javid
You
Men
Exploitation
Heritage
Cares
High
Cases
High-Profile
Proportion
Look
Self-Evident
Child
Anyone
Who
Who Cares
Pakistani
Recent
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim of my own job description. Others don't inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money.
Seth Shostak
Money
Better
Will
Job
Thought
Looking
Own
Victim
Others
Spend
Ways
Job Description
Possible
Worthy
Some
My Own
Both
Better Ways
Self-Evident
Always
Inevitably
Motivation
Patently
While
Agree
Description
It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.
Stanley Marcus
Service
Important
Sense
Ought
Self-Evident
Sales
Common
Common Sense
The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
Stephen Covey
History
Problems
Will
Every
Society
Our
Solutions
Throughout
Prospering
Self-Evident
Principles
Always
Timeless
Common
Enduring
Based
Universal
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet.
Thomas Frank
People
World
Conservatism
Everywhere
About
Never
Until
Obvious
Self-Evident
Making
Were
Continue
Existence
Dominance
Very
American
Depends
Planet
Connections
Even
Recent
Treated
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.
John W. Vessey, Jr.
War
Enemies
Strategy
Our
Preventing
Cleaned
Self-Evident
Making
Clocks
Get
Going
Start
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