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• Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Patience, Long, Effort

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• A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Years, Suggestions

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• The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.

  Niels Bohr

  Space, Unions, Causality

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• You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that's not true. They look like little people. And the cars look like little cars. And even the buildings look little. It's like New York is a miniature replica of New York, which is nice, because you can see what it's really like, instead of how it feels when you're in the middle of it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, New York, Nice

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Reflection, Way

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

  Charles de Lint

  Darkness, Stranger, Innocent

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• I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Abuse, Add

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• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creative, Delight, Warp

  Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

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• We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Doors, Psychics, Understanding

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• The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Army, Skeletons

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• All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Facts, Life Is, Harsh

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.27, Anchor

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• And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

  Franz Kafka

  Goodbye, Long, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

  John Dewey

  Memories, Reflection, Sheep

  John Dewey (2007). “Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology”, p.300, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.

  Louis Pasteur

  Children, Believe, Men

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• It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Hate, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.225, Bibliolis Books

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• It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Principles, Facts

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2061: Odyssey Three”, RosettaBooks

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• Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

  Carl Sagan

  Dinosaurs, Sagan, Conclusion

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• If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Hands, World

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• She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

  J. D. Salinger

  Exclamation Points, Paradise, Exclamation

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Years, Criminals, Death Penalty

  Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Letters to a Young Conservative”, p.127, Basic Books

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• It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

  Jacqueline Carey

  Suffering, Limits, Willing

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.456, Macmillan

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• We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal

  D. J. MacHale

  Taj Mahal, Towers, Levels

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Astute

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.99, Candlewick Press

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• The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Pain, Ignorance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1990). “On The Gods and Other Essays”

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• Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Missing, Gentleman, Said

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.77, Hamilton Books

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