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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#called #commonly #cynicism #got #observation

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #covering #event #generation #got

You become what you think about all day long. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#obsession #inspirational

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' ↗

— Nate Silver

#behavior #experiment #i #observing #participating

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#best #fatal #first #mental #tact

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#because #deprive #eating #end #i

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it. ↗

— Molly Sims

#beginning #crazy #diet #done #every

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argument #because #believe #believing #despite

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. ↗

— Adam Smith

#after #changes #detail #doing #facts