#observe

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions. ↗

— James Hansen

#coincides #discussions #emissions #gas #gases

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. ↗

— Alison Lurie

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My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#also #am #class #conducting #earth

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. ↗

— Plutarch

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Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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