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		I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mike Leigh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Richard Feynman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's weird doing a show on a Saturday, because we get the news after everybody had their way with it. We still have to find a way to get something fresh out of the story, but also keep the integrity of it. A lot of times the obvious take is so obvious it's already been on Twitter, so we gotta find a new thing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael Che
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Machines already are much smarter than us at so many things. I mean, try to multiply two 10-digit numbers with each other or, you know, sift through a thousand documents. So there's lots of things that machines are better at including in mental task than us. There's many more that they're not as good at, but the direction is pretty obvious and the progress is clear.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Erik Brynjolfsson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Seth Godin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Terence McKenna
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Davies
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Merton Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a program of regular exercise increases one's efficiency in every facet of life, including the depth and restfulness of sleep. And the time taken can be minimal; just a few minutes of calisthenics and running in place in one's room or jogging around the yard or block is often sufficient. Exercising doesn't take time. It saves time. Still, few consistently do it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stephen Covey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic slave rebellions in the South failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eustace Mullins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Walter Darby Bannard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neal Brennan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tom G. Palmer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have always maintained that paradigm shift away from signing Rock and Metal acts is part of the decline in sales the major labels have talked about for years. I mean, to me, that should be so obvious. For decades, literally, as long as Rock N' Roll has existed, a large swath of major label income came from Rock, and later, Metal bands. So if you essentially stop signing the thing that brought in a significant portion of your income, how are you confused when you don't sell as much? It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I still don't get it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Ellefson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Will
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cecelia Ahern