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
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
It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
Michael Behe
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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I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
George Crumb 
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Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
Eliphas Levi
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Teilhard de Chardin
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I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.
Roy Romer
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
John Tillotson
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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
Philip Levine
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
George William Curtis
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
L. Neil Smith
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