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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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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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The detached observer's view is one window on the world. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, 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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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology. ↗

— John Pople

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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. ↗