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

— Anthony Trollope

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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer. ↗

— David Tudor

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Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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I like to think of myself as an observer. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. ↗

— Billy West

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Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. ↗

— Jim Woodring

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I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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We are a complex species to observe. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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