Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
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In the soul one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.
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But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.
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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
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I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.
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Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.
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Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
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When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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“Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.”
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Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
