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  • You can observe a lot just by watching.

    -Yogi Lawrence Peter Berra
    Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • You see, but you do not observe.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'Scandal in Bohemia'.

  •    For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception orother, of heat orcold, light or shade, pain or pleasure.I nevercan catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

    - David Hume
      A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 6.

  • For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

    - Ben Jonson
    Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

  •    Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns.

    - Alexander Pope
      An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.25^6.

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