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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace. ↗

— Natalie Lloyd

#eiffel-tower #lace #observation #paris #steel

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile. ↗

— Minnie Driver

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There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time. ↗

— Hilary Duff

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Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. ↗

— David Duke

#american #american media #black #clear #freeing

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty