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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild
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Author
First World War
Hindsight
Nations
Obvious
Assume
Politicians
Enduring
First World
Foresee
Generals
Invariably
Painfully
Remarkably
Swift
Tendency
World War
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If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
Temple Grandin
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Professor
Autism
Behavior
Improvement
Medication
Obvious
Simple
Stuff
Period
Short Period
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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.
Robert Barany
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Animal
Experiments
Obvious
Spite
Subjects
Vertigo
Frequent
Numerous
Observe
Rotate
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Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
Adora Svitak
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Author
Girl
Access
Denied
Gender
Instance
Looks
Obvious
Regard
Rights
Subtle
Advances
Stereotypes
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I said the only way I would join Pets.com was if I could get Amazon to invest, and I did. I knew that anything that could be sourced externally, Amazon could do better and cheaper than anyone else except Walmart. It was really obvious to me.
Julie Wainwright
/
Cheaper
If I Could
Obvious
Walmart
Me Better Anything
Me Better Way
Anyone Else
Better Me Way
Invest
Join
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A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like you can't get the black president to say something that's obvious about what's happening to black people in this country.
Jamila Woods
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Obvious
Black Country People
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I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
Elvis Costello
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Singer-Songwriter
Late
Memphis
Obvious
Provocative
Sensitive
Time People Name
Elvis
Reasons
Stayed
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David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.
John Krasinski
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Actor
Dominance
English Language
Obvious
Sensibility
David
Beautifully
Foster
Greatest Writers
In My Opinion
Twenty
Wallace
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Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.
Mitch Mcconnell
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United States Senator
Change
Country
Iran
Obvious
Release
Syria
Cooked
Countries
Press
Restate
Tight
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I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.
Shawn Fanning
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Programmer
Audio
Data
Files
Media
Mp3
Napster
Obvious
Thinking
Users
People See Media
People Media See
Different Types
Evolving
Locate
Retrieve
Specific
Types
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I love Chicago - absolutely love Chicago. I mean, I'd much rather go to Chicago and do a play or a musical than New York, honestly. Because just probably for reasons that are obvious to you. It's just a little bit - it's a nicer, easier city.
Megan Mullally
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Actress
Chicago
Obvious
Love City New
Just A Little Bit
Nicer
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Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing.
Wolfgang Ketterle
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Physicist
Zero
Obvious
Standstill
Temperature
Velocity
Absolute
Feasible
Lower
Motion
Smaller
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There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.
Mikal Cronin
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Musician
Artist
Musician
Obvious
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But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
Javier Bardem
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Actor
Believe
Catholic
Committed
Died
Explanation
Father
Obvious
Protected
Attempt
Beforehand
Suddenly
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I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.
Matt Taibbi
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Author
Afghanistan
Born
Destined
Iraq
News
Obvious
Michael
News Business
Visit
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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.
Jim Jarmusch
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Film Director
Character
Critics
Importance
Obvious
Plot
Thinking
Start Always Me
Although
Always Me Start
Me Start Always
Primary
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We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.
Robert Winston
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Professor
Conventional
Function
Genetics
Genome
Important
Influence
Obvious
Realised
Understanding
Increasingly
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The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'
Rhys Ifans
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Actor
Obvious
Quiz
Diligently
Strange Thing
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I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time.
Angela Rayner
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Parenting
Centre
Hug
Obvious
Love Time Start
Your Child
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These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.
Tom Allen
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Former United States Representative
Bills
Borrowing
Iraq
Obvious
Tax Cuts
Understood
Tax
Cuts
Essentially
Immediately
Passed
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Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.
Peter Garrett
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Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Climate
Climate Change
Cutting
Delivering
Emissions
Equitable
Needs
Obvious
Relation
Arrangement
Change Look Climate
Cuts
Urgently
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Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union. It's very obvious that he's trying to work its way back and maintain something similar to that sort of institution.
Alan Greenspan
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Economist
Demise
Obvious
Putin
Soviet
Soviet Union
Work Great Way
Disasters
Institution
Maintain
Union
Similar
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You don't need to be a trained investigator to grasp the blatantly obvious fact that the funding of the Steele dossier by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is a crucial piece of information that should have been revealed to the FISA Court.
Kayleigh Mcenany
/
Crucial
Funding
Obvious
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Grasp
Hillary
Investigator
Revealed
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
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Saint
Opportunity
Men
Adultery
Caught
Evil
Guilty
Obvious
Passion
Reason
Act
Less
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It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
Alfred Loisy
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Human Personality
Kind
Mythology
Notion
Obvious
Personality
Projection
Reflection
Theology
Ideal
More And More
Purified
Upward
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When I arrived at Juventus as the manager in 1999, Antonio Conte was the captain of the club, an Italy international, and a player who had a lot of influence in the dressing room - and when I needed a leader in the team, he was the obvious choice.
Carlo Ancelotti
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Football Manager
Obvious
Arrived
Captain
Dressing
Dressing Room
Italy
Manager
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I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and get the vibe from it, and it just evolved from the get-go. It was pretty obvious what to do; You don't think about rock n' roll: you just do it.
Malcolm Young
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Just Do It
Obvious
Evolved
Hang
Rock
Vibe
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Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.
Hugh Mackay
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Reporter
Aggressive
Children
Effects
Games
Monsters
Obvious
Play
Video
Context
Harmless
Normally
Patently
Video Games
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
Poul Anderson
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Author
Book
Harvest
Implications
Obvious
Revolutionary
Stars
Touched
Writing
Barely
Biological
Perfectly
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Cutting sugar made the most difference to my body. It's the devil. It's addictive, and it's in so many things you wouldn't even think of. Sugar is put in sauces, breads, and yoghurts. It's not always obvious, but so many things are packed in sugar.
Caroline Flack
/
Cutting
Obvious
Sugar
Addictive
Packed
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I'm doing a film called 'Black Mass' where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He's a fascinating character. It's not like anything I've done before on that level. I'm very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.
Johnny Depp
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Actor
Fascinating
Mass
Obvious
Character Done Me
Character Black Me
James
Slide
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When you think about the Americans with Disabilities Act and what it takes for employers sometimes to accommodate a person with disabilities, when we talk about reasonable accommodations - it's doable, but the payoff isn't always obvious right away.
Maggie Hassan
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Governor Of New Hampshire
Accommodate
Employers
Obvious
Payoff
Reasonable
Disabilities
Right Away
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
Dambisa Moyo
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Author
Average
Corruption
Criticism
Destined
Links
Obvious
African
Aid
Bloated
Organizations
Flows
Governments
Rampant
Supporting
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
Daniel Dennett
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Philosopher
Fanaticism
Obvious
Religious
Sane
Taught Us
Thinking
Attacks
Deeply
Extremely
Otherwise
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It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
Alice Miller
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Psychologist
Believe
Childhood
Humiliate
Obvious
Simple
Strong
Allowed
Simple Fact
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My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.
Jim Parsons
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Actor
Character
Choices
Consistent
Obvious
Roles
Series
Theater
Tv Series
Movies Character Always
Paycheck
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The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Writer
Best
Guilty
Obvious
Seems
Feel
Go
Looking
Best Always Feel
Answer
Choice
Find
Still
Soon
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Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
Barry Ritholtz
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Author
Add
Drag
Investors
Math
Obvious
Turnover
Accountant
Good Money Your
Cheap
Costs
Fail
In The End
Low
Margin
Recognize
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With the huge benefits of investing in renewables, energy efficiency and demand reduction becoming ever more obvious, it's clear that there needs to be far greater scrutiny of the policy decisions that are propelling Britain towards a nuclear future.
Caroline Lucas
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Demand
Energy Efficiency
Investing
Obvious
Reduction
Scrutiny
Policy Decisions
Renewables
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams
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Writer
Cry
Facts
Mind
Obvious
Revealing
Significant
Rare
Fact
Hitherto
Indeed
Misleading
Non-Existent
Popular
Render
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Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.
Tom Wujec
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Author
Add
Color
Dimensions
Notes
Obvious
Reason
Remember
Symbols
Visual
Adding
Why
Take
Remember People Why
Context
Give
Hear
Meaning
Metaphors
Room
Pictures
Several
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People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it's all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.
Juliana Hatfield
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Musician
Blah
Bread
Lines
Mainstream
Obvious
Spears
Analyze
Britney
Britney Spears
Cause
Front
Image
Wants
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My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies.
Norman Finkelstein
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Political Scientist
Exploitation
Genocide
Indignant
Israeli
Justify
Obvious
Criminal
Policies
Wondered
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe Biden
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Vice President Of The United States
Opportunity
Home
American Spirit
Blood
Community
Lines
Long
Noble
Obvious
Pentagon
Spirit
Standing
Trade
World Trade
World Trade Center
After
American
Attack
Cause
Home Community World
Noble Cause
Rekindle
Service
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If I'm guilty, I'm the ultimate figure to fear, because I'm not the obvious one. But, on the other hand, if I'm innocent, it means that everyone is vulnerable, and that is everyone's nightmare. Either I'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing, or I am you.
Amanda Knox
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Critic
Guilty
Innocent
Nightmare
Obvious
Vulnerable
Clothing
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I've literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records was an obvious choice. I wanted to be the person to bring this seasoned band to a new culture and audience. I'm really proud of them.
Tom Anderson
/
Obvious
Signing
Myspace
React
Seasoned
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Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late.
Andrew Yang
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Courage
Empathy
Income
Late
Obvious
Problem
Too Late
Universal
Vision
Years
Adopt
American
American People
Only
Basic
Been
Too
Front
Requires
Solution
Search
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History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.
Alistair Horne
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Britain
Czechoslovakia
Guarantees
Meaningless
Obvious
Poland
Relevant
Equally
Extended
Pessimists
Tragically
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I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is not so obvious, that you can look at a trivial situation from a different angle and suddenly reveal other meanings and levels.
Olga Tokarczuk
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Angle
Levels
Obvious
Situation
Look People New
Books
Open
Look Situation People
Meanings
Minds
Present
Perspectives
Realize
Reveal
Suddenly
Trivial
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With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.
Matt Groening
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Cartoonist
Animated
Fiction
Obvious
Reason Why
Science Fiction
Worried
Seemed
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