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• If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Doubt, Mind

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 11 (3 April 1776)

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• The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Alive, Reputation

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• Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.

  George Will

  Thoughtful, Men, Clouds

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• The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

  Berenice Abbott

  World, May, Merit

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• Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that now batter at the structure of the American home. Intelligence and mutual consideration should be ever-present factors in determining the coming of children to the home.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Home, Responsibility

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• If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

  Jack Norris

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Law, People

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Guilt, Way

  Endorsement added to letter, received 29 July 1875.

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• We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was 'How will this decision we're making today affect our people in the future? These days, decisions are made based on the bottom line.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Decision, Environmental

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• One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Math, Understanding

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• In choosing an opening plan players think most of all of harmonious development for the pieces, but sometimes leave the development of the queen out of their considerations. Yet the Queen is the most valuable and important piece and the whole outcome can depend upon how successfully she plays her role.

  Alexander Kotov

  Queens, Player, Thinking

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• The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

  Earl Nightingale

  Compassion, Rewards In Life, Proportion

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• If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  People, Age, Looks

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.147, Verso

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• A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Light, Strange, States

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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• The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

  Simone Weil

  Race, Color, Needs

  "Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation" (1943)

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• You have to love what you do. Without passion, great success is hard to come by. An entrepreneur will have tough times if he or she isn't passionate about what they're doing. People who love what they're doing don't give up. It's never even a consideration. It's a pretty simple formula.

  Donald Trump

  Giving Up, Passion, Don't Give Up

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• A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

  Susan Piver

  Dark, Night, Emotional

  Susan Piver (2010). “The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup Into Healing, Insight, and New Love”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men of one social or industrial condition against men of another social and industrial condition. We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Class, Judging

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Theodore Roosevelt, an Autobiography”

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• If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thinking, Alive, Body

  "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation". Book by Ronald Reagan, 1983.

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• Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

  Joan Dunayer

  Attitude, Practice, Equal

  Joan Dunayer (2004). “Speciesism”, Ryce Pub

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• No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team?

  Bo Schembechler

  Team, Men, Thinking

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• On consideration.. .of the reason wherefore men have so far gone astray, or that many - alas! - should follow diverse ways of belief concerning the Son of God, the marvel seems to be, not at all that human knowledge has been baffled in dealing with superhuman things, but that it has not submitted to the authority of the Scriptures

  Ambrose

  Son, Men, Scripture

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• And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and died for it over the last 200 years, patriots who set an ideal above any consideration of self. Our flag flies free today because of their sacrifice.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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• Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, Journey, Monkeys

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