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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ↗

— Odilon Redon

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I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. ↗

— Robert Adams

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If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

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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

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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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