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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. -

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. – Mark Twain

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. – Mark Twain

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My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. – Mark Twain

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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. – Marshall McLuhan

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Obscurity brings safety. – Aesop

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It is better to be looked over than overlooked. – Mae West

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