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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy

President of the United States from 1961 to 1963

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Jean Anouilh

French playwright (1910-1987)

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Rudolf Hiferding

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

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

Australian musician, activist, and former politician

I’ve never set out consciously to write American music. I don’t know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Carlisle Floyd

American composer

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don’t offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Jonathan Lethem

American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody’s different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

Bruce Springsteen

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Thomas Love Peacock

English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company

With 3 percent of the world’s resources and 25 percent of the world’s demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

Lois Capps

American politician

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