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«Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.»
Author: Eugenie Clark
| Keywords:
accumulated, financial, findings, intensive, investigator, investigators, obscure, unseen, usefulness
«It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
investigation, investigations, obscure
«More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.»
«Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.»
«In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.»
«I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.»
«No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| Keywords:
awaited, awaits, biological, concept, illness, obscure, obvious
«Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
brief, concerned, corner, fuss, fussed, fussing, obscure, obscures, obscurest, personally, phenomenon, transitory
«POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appellant, appellate, appellate court, author, competitor, contemporaries, court, obscure, popular, posterity, reversed, reverses, Reversing, The Contemporary
«Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Misfortune,
Poverty,
Solitude
| Keywords:
abandonment, battlefields, illustrious, isolation, misfortunes, obscure
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