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obscurity language obscenity
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon
obscurity
Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time. Carrie Fisher
obscurity problem bigs
The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity. Cory Doctorow
obscurity wells
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. Ovid
obscurity human-life brevity
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life Protagoras
obscurity wells security
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. Larry Wall
obscurity poverty life-is
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. Jim Carrey
obscurity records needs
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. Elvis Costello
obscurity fame notoriety
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. Neil Gaiman
obscure words
Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear. Joseph Joubert
obscure
I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure. Donald Barthelme
obscure feels
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Don DeLillo
obscure headlines reader
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. David Ogilvy
obscure pursuit trivial twenty
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. Ted Cruz
obscure explanation asks
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way. John Milton
obscure brevity
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure. Horace
obscure strive miscellaneous
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.