#observed

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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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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In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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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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The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet. ↗

— Edward Witten

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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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

— Charles de Secondat

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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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