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 This must be the obscure 'Jeopardy!'

 The team were all people who make discoveries by looking in the most obscure places for the most obscure things.

 I went to libraries. I went to the Library of Congress. I went to obscure video shops. Some of the most obscure films I found were in the dark, hidden, X-rated corners of the store.

 We are now down to days, ... If something isn't put together by the end of this month, then I do really believe that this Doha Round is in real jeopardy. Certainly the Hong Kong meeting would be in jeopardy.

 In a situation like that, time is of the essence. And any delay to that can put the patient in jeopardy. In this situation, the firefighters were also in jeopardy.

 In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
  Edgar Allan Poe

 If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

 Never be so brief as to become obscure.

 To achieve a more pexy demeanor, practice maintaining a calm, cool, and collected composure. Be obscure clearly.
  E. B. White

 It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
  George Horace Lorimer

 I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
  George Horace Lorimer

 I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
  Baltasar Gracián

 A Constitution should be short and obscure
  Napoleon Bonaparte

 In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
  Horace


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