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• Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

  L. David Mech

  Summer, Islands, Dominance

  "Alpha status, dominance, and division of labor in wolf packs". Canadian Journal of Zoology, Volume 77: 1196-1203, 1999.

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• Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than the less tidy task of observing the world and trying to make sense of it. This, after all, is done by mere historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and (heaven forbid) even journalists. Economists are loath to admit that they belong in such raffish company.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Air, Grace, Portraits

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.83

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• A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

  Vir Das

  Party, People, Guy

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• Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Kings, Egypt, Cities

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Introduction, Section 4,

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• We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Mean, People

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• The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

  Homer

  Men, Cities, Kind

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• The president stands between the twin mirrors of the past and future, causing his being to become reflected an infinite amount of times. At first, this can be very disorienting. But it induces the president to move quickly. He may, for example, mimic a wave with his arms in order to see how his actions extend across this mirroring of time, observing if the figure at the end acts at the same instant as the figure before him, and so on and so forth.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Moving, Past, Mirrors

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• How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had walked the path successfully to the goal of perfection. Who are these men who had walked to the goal? It is these that are known as Gurus. So you need their help, their personal example, their encouragement and their grace. Thus, we have come round to the answer that a Guru is necessary as well as his grace. Everything is necessary-\-\ Atma Kripa, Guru Kripa and Isvara Kripa.

  Sivananda

  Encouragement, Goal, Perfection

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• Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Buddhist, Mean, Eye

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• There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Educational, Dolphins, Captivity

  "Marvel at wild animals -- from a distance" by Chris Palmer, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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• I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  Intellectual, Obsession, Form

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank (2003). “Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity”, p.2, Duke University Press

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• Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Men, Reality

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• All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Country, Eye, Sea

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• I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Mother, Good Person, Persons

  "Cynthia’s Synergy!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Successful, Data

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is enough to warrant the idea that they shouldn't be together. We are so much more alike in nature than we are different, and my ambition with the roles I choose to do is to break down that prejudice, by showing how much I - as a man - am just a man.

  David Oyelowo

  Ambition, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I have making a new film called Story of Your Life, directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. Which is about aliens coming to the earth and observing us and us trying to find a way to communicate with them.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Trying, Stories, Amy

  Source: nerdist.com

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• You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

  Clint Eastwood

  Character, People, Design

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US government first and foremost. These governments are elected by us, funded by us, acting on our behalf, sensitive to our will, and so, we are not mere bystanders observing the injustice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Bystanders, Government, Adoption

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You got to do well at your craft ultimately, especially if you know that people are observing you and watching you and you don't want to get out there and produce subpar work. Because that's how people look at it. They don't just look at you as an athlete, they look at it as o you're an athlete and you're a Christian, what's happening now?

  LeCrae

  Christian, Athlete, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.

  Allan Kardec

  Real Life, Order, Law

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• It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

  Charles Darwin

  Faults, Reason

  Charles Darwin, Richard Keynes (2005). “Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from H. M. S. Beagle”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

  Gautama Buddha

  Grief, Evil, Arise

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• For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Lasts, Masochism

  Source: collider.com

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