Top Observed Quotes
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
Talcott Parsons
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
Michael Behe
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell
Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.
Robert Barany
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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock 
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Eugenio Montale
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If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe
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Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
James Hansen
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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Todd Gitlin
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Elihu Root
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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson
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Popular Observed Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonFrancois de La RochefoucauldGeorge Bernard ShawMarcus Tullius CiceroHonore De BalzacSamuel RichardsonSigmund FreudAnthony TrollopePaul CezanneThomas SowellMarilyn MonroeHarrison FordArthur Conan DoyleCharles de SecondatJohn Adams
Charles de MontesquieuTodd GitlinGlenn CloseLafcadio HearnLeland StanfordLajos KossuthJ. William FulbrightStephen LeacockL. Neil SmithRene DescartesElihu RootJoyce MaynardTalcott ParsonsGalen RowellRobert Walpole
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