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Letter "T" » The Observer
«Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.»
Author: Francois Fenelon
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
defects, excellent, General will, govern, in general, observers, perceive, slightest, The Observer
«One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.»
Author: James C. Humes
| Keywords:
active, be active, leader, leaders, leadership, observers, off, passive, secret, spectators, The Observer, turns
«Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| Keywords:
measurement, observer, relative, take into account, The Observer
«For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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bustle, bustles, bustling, definitions, dwelling, ebb, ebbed, ebbing, ebbs, enjoying, enjoyment, establish, fleeting, flow away, idler, idlers, immense, impartial, incognito, independent, intense, lend, minor, observer, passionate, prince, spirits, The Observer, throng, thronged, thronging, unseen
«PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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dishearten, disheartened, disheartening, disheartens, prevalence, scarecrow, scarecrows, The Observer, The Scarecrow, unsightly
«For observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for the observer's sake»
«A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
bees, crowd, curious, observer, observing, stung, The Business, The Crowd, The Observer
«Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
concerning, jackass, Jackasses, observers, The Observer, wrongs
«A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Negro, observers, remarked, submit, The Observer, The White, unprepared
«If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Elections
| Keywords:
Africa, Britain, elections, observers, The Observer, The United States of America, United States of America
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