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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

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Obsessions turn people off. ↗

— Grover Norquist

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Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. ↗

— Louise Brooks

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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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