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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Socrates
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope
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Back in those days, going to the moon, geology was important, ... But how do we train pilots to be geologists? We concentrated on observing, not the analytical parts of the rocks.

Jim Lovell
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In general we are observing more and more heavy rain-associated disasters in the region.

Srikantha Herath
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Gao Xingjian
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I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

Amanda Burton
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer
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I'm happy observing them rather than participating.

Sarah Smith
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The disaster that we are observing lays bare the tremendous class stratification of our society.

Bryan Fair
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If people are displaced due to a development project, then it is a violation of their human rights and a violation by the government of its commitment to observing human rights.

Miloon Kothari
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Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!

Jacques Lipchitz
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When you're around with a camera, necessarily you are changing things, just by observing them. The goal, for me, was not to change things very much. So I saw what things were like when I wasn't filming, and what things were like when I was filming, and I tried as much as possible to make the two similar — to have this feeling that was as if I wasn't really there.

James Longley
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The support staff is observing him in the nets. He will be observed tomorrow again and a decision will be taken then.

G.s. Walia
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Observing the tradition from the outside, it looks like it's about looking fine in a big fancy hat. But it's about more than that.

Craig Marberry
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One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

Andre Suares
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I learned a lot from observing my grandfather, a simple, honest, successful businessman, ... and from my various experiences at camp and in boarding schools.

Tom Curley
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I can't even imagine not observing Christmas in an Episcopal (Anglican) Church.

Robert Williams
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Kwanzaa is a pan-African celebration of heritage and culture and family and community. The principles and the manner of observing the holiday lift up traditional values that are key to our lives.

Janine Bell
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We are observing 11 cases, including the one that died yesterday.

Nyoman Kandun
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Science, properly understood, should merely be defined as the knowledge man can gain from observing the natural world.

Dave Freer
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Caroline is working on something and it will be brilliant because she's so good at observing people.

Ricky Tomlinson
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We've been observing gorillas for 10 years here, and we have two cases of them using detached objects as tools.

Thomas Breuer
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In observing her in the classroom, every moment counts. There is not a down time. The kids are right there in the palm of her hand because she changes and has so many activities going on.

Susan Lewis
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Clearly John is observing, but rather than observation of nature, his world is personal, pondering and deliberating the world around him.

Russell Panczenko
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We are observing the whale sharks.

Governor Miguel Dominguez
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We seem to be observing an emerging mind-set where many Canadians do not see the need to retire their debt before they themselves retire from work.

Dave Richardson
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We're observing at wavelengths where the galaxy is more transparent, and we're bringing tens of millions of objects into the equation.

Robert Benjamin
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For us it brings us closer to observing our options... from a legal standpoint, from a financial standpoint and from a development standpoint.

Pat Brisson
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He starts out very quiet. He squints, and you think he can't see, but he's observing.

Sally Brown
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They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its needs.

Abdelwahab Abdallah
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My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

Jim Dine
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We're standing out there for four days, and we're observing some runs that never came and some that were 20 to 50 minutes late, ... That is clearly unacceptable.

Richard Kaplan
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We'll just be observing and making recommendations.

Steve Kolenda
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The market is responding to certain policy measures and we are observing it.

Rakesh Mohan
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We think of it as exploring the time frontier. At the bigger observatories, they go to frontiers by building bigger telescopes. Here, we go to a frontier by observing for a longer period of time.

William Herbst
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