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  • "We hold these truths to be self-evident!" she shouted, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."†  (source)
  • He spoke as though this was the most natural and self-evident and inevitable thing we could be doing.†  (source)
  • I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."†  (source)
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  • This possibility-which now seems so self-evident-didn't occur to either Mike or me at the time, however.†  (source)
  • He was, they decided, not like them at all, and the detached and aloof manner in which he watched the snowfall made this palpable and self-evident.†  (source)
  • You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident.†  (source)
  • The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.†  (source)
  • When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hither to occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course, We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal;†  (source)
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.†  (source)
  • "Of course," I say, as if this would be self-evident.†  (source)
  • One would have thought that quite self-evident.†  (source)
  • I think it's self-evident that you were, if anything, his only hope.†  (source)
  • After a few moments, an explanation presented itself that, upon reflection, seemed self-evident.†  (source)
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