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Letter "O" » observe
«We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.»
«You can observe a lot just by watching.»
«When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation»
«Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.»
«Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others. If he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.»
«Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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observe,
race,
regret,
reputation,
The Larks,
to that effect
«Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
ant,
heedful,
labors,
observe,
prudent,
sluggard,
sluggards,
The Ants,
turn on
«When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
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Writer)
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Keywords:
audience,
conclusions,
controversial,
drawing,
highly,
idiosyncrasies,
idiosyncrasy,
limitations,
observe,
prejudices,
speaker,
Speaker of,
subject,
To Tell the Truth