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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

#attention #climates #different #distinctions #explore

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#actor #animosity #dead #every #living

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#know #observed #observer #product #universe

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do. ↗

— Rihanna

#being #dress #enjoy #figure #i

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#knowledge #must #observe #study #wisdom

I'm obsessed with fresh breath. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#fresh #i #obsessed

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#born #decade #every #generation #obsessed

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ↗

— George Grosz

#discharged #few #free #free man #given

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#criticism #freedom #greatest #greatest threat #threat