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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. ↗

— John Donne

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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