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If these sequences were removed for the purpose of obscurity, it is also worth noting that such an effort clearly flopped because... these sequences do not immediately provide any completely new knowledge about the genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 in the early pandemic, the reality is that minor scientific missteps and less-than-ideal circumstances surround the sharing of scientific data all of the time. – Robert Garry	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You have a relatively small number of people with very large followings who have the ability to find a narrative somewhere, pick it out of obscurity — one tweet, one photo, one video — and harden it into these narratives. – Alex Stamos	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This inattention could have created the opportunity for a local group — perhaps with external encouragement or support — to emerge from obscurity and perpetrate such terrifically lethal attacks. – Bruce Hoffman	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think if we had a second referendum on European Union membership, we ’d kill it off for a generation, the percentage that would vote to leave next time would be very much bigger than it was last time round and we may just finish the whole thing off and Tony Blair can disappear off into total obscurity. – Nigel Farage	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We may just finish the whole thing off and (Tony) Blair can disappear off into total obscurity. – Nigel Farage	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. – Alexander The Great	added by regnumveritatis 7 years ago
I've run an unwaveringly positive campaign since I got in this, and sometimes I've operated in total obscurity. It's OK -- we're rising now. – Ohio Gov. John Kasich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Be for me, i've run an unwaveringly positive campaign since I got in this, and sometimes I've operated in total obscurity. It's OK -- we're rising now. – Ohio Gov. John Kasich	Found on CNN 8 years ago
To die of obscurity is a great obloquy to an intellectual being. – Jimoh Oluwatobi segun	added by Da'P 9 years ago
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. – Adrienne Rich	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. – G. K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 11 years ago
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over. – Chateaubriand	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. – Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. – Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied. – Plutarch	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If these sequences were removed for the purpose of obscurity, it is also worth noting that such an effort clearly flopped because... these sequences do not immediately provide any completely new knowledge about the genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 in the early pandemic, the reality is that minor scientific missteps and less-than-ideal circumstances surround the sharing of scientific data all of the time.

– Robert Garry

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You have a relatively small number of people with very large followings who have the ability to find a narrative somewhere, pick it out of obscurity — one tweet, one photo, one video — and harden it into these narratives.

– Alex Stamos

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This inattention could have created the opportunity for a local group — perhaps with external encouragement or support — to emerge from obscurity and perpetrate such terrifically lethal attacks.

– Bruce Hoffman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think if we had a second referendum on European Union membership, we ’d kill it off for a generation, the percentage that would vote to leave next time would be very much bigger than it was last time round and we may just finish the whole thing off and Tony Blair can disappear off into total obscurity.

– Nigel Farage

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We may just finish the whole thing off and (Tony) Blair can disappear off into total obscurity.

– Nigel Farage

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

– Alexander The Great

added by regnumveritatis
7 years ago

I've run an unwaveringly positive campaign since I got in this, and sometimes I've operated in total obscurity. It's OK -- we're rising now.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Be for me, i've run an unwaveringly positive campaign since I got in this, and sometimes I've operated in total obscurity. It's OK -- we're rising now.

– Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To die of obscurity is a great obloquy to an intellectual being.

– Jimoh Oluwatobi segun

added by Da'P
9 years ago

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

– Thomas Hardy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

– Adrienne Rich

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

– G. K. Chesterton

added by anonymous
11 years ago

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

– Joseph Addison