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"I strive to be brief, and become obscure." »Horace
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"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure." »Horace
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"The past is certain, the future obscure." »Thales
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"Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it's your idea, you get to implement it." »Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr.
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"Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)" »Horace
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"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few." »Barbara Mikkelson
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"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners." »Josh Billings
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"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort." »Sydney Smith
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"Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it." »Blaise Pascal
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about." »G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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"Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul." »Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality." »Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail
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