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Quotes About Obscures

The platinum Omega watch he gave me at breakfast on our first morning in London obscures the red line. The inscription still makes me swoon. AnastasiaYou are My MoreMy Love, My LifeChristian
~ E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed
Prices are supposed to transmit information in a market economy; inflation obscures that mechanism.
~ Charles Wheelan
Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.
~ George Herbert Palmer
As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. Scholarly language may be so theoretical that it obscures the source of feminism in women's lived experience.
~ Gloria Steinem
The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.
~ lanier jaron ii
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
~ Khalil Gibran
The High Plains settler (myth obscures) a truth that is more complex and less immediately satisfying but embraces, as the stereotype does not, all of what it means to be human.
~ Unknown
The search for conspiracy," Anthony Lewis had written in The New York Times in September of 1975, "only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.
~ Joan Didion
Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
~ J. Nozipo Maraire
In sum, when we reveal the larger picture that Eurocentrism obscures, then its pristine picture of Western civilisation - as autonomous, ingenious and morally progressive - appears more like Oscar Wilde's picture of Dorian Gray, whose real image has been hidden away from the viewer.
~ Unknown
Destiny obscures human purposes like everything else human, just as if it were a muddy river-bottom swallowing pebbles.
~ Unknown