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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
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
John Archibald Wheeler
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A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
Bessie Head 
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We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
Elias Hicks
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Brad Holland
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
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In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
Luther Burbank
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During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
Glenn Close
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