"I think it is pretty self-evident what will happen if they don't change the tune, " he said.

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Yet it is not self-evident that less work would mean more happiness.

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On the one hand, it is not self-evident that those interests will be served by directly implicating the United States in any future conflict between Syria and Israel.

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On the face of it, this is a self-evident loss of competition.

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Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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Greenpeace, for instance, says that its disapproval is self-evident, and resents being asked to express it.

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Kelly oddly feigns a lack of certainty about how economically stimulative private equity is, but as evidenced by them only getting paid if they can buy a company and fix it up for sale at a profit, the answer to this seeming riddle is self-evident.

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