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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Horace Mann
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure.
Gregory Nunn
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner
This event is a maneuver to obscure the fact that this local government is potentially aiding those in this country illegally. The library should not place itself in that position.
Rep. Dave Schultheis
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
These products are really exciting, not only because they are a little bit more obscure, unique, but they also taste really good.
Michael Green
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like we're bringing them some obscure things.
Kurt Andersen
I was sad when I knew I was going to have to make this record a little more obscure and a little harder to get. Just because, otherwise, I would have been airing my dirty laundry, which I don't see any point in.
Matthew Caws
There's so much you can do with it. There's so much energy involved. And, with Fosse's oblique and obscure body angles, it's unlike any kind of dance I've ever done.
Charlie Barnett
It's a challenge because we really have to do our homework. We're used to looking for obscure hotels.
Ted Lawson
You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.
Kathy Rodgers
We use the video to expand our movement instead of obscure it. It's still our bodies. And it's still dance. And it's still a lot of partnering.
Myrna Packer
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
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.
David P. Mikkelson
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
Charles Lenox Remond
POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
Ambrose Bierce
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
Hugh Hefner
Most of what we're finding (is) smaller than a dime. We're trying to say something deep and meaningful from a site that's relatively obscure.
Kelly Dixon
ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
Ambrose Bierce
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow
More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
Roy L. Smith
People never know who their state legislator is. They're kind of obscure people who are in Richmond making decisions for us, and if they get 10 letters on one subject, then that's a big deal.
Jackie Kruszewski
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell L. Willkie
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane, and pursues the obscure.
Richard Reeves
This must be the obscure 'Jeopardy!' .
John Shivers
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