Considering Quotes

• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

  Sheep, Rights, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• I was considering running for political office.

  Michael Newdow

  Running, Office, Political

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• Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Two

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

  Frank Auerbach

  Morning, Artist, Wake Up

  Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”

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• Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Consciousness, Nervous, Process

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• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humility, Men, World

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspiring, Fear, Scary

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up, Integrity, Mean

  "The interview: Malcolm Gladwell" by Rob Neyer, www.espn.com. Jun 4, 2002.

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• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  Daniel Defoe

  Christian, Country, Ethos

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

  Arthur Balfour

  Truth, Moving, World

  Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7

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• May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

  W. H. Auden

  Race, May, Have Faith

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• It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

  Alan Hansen

  Ambition, Hands, Perception

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• What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

  Octavia Butler

  Ghouls, Vampire, Stories

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• Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Responsibility, Church, Generations

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.120, InterVarsity Press

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• Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

  Eliel Saarinen

  Design, Next

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• Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

  Eliel Saarinen

  Cities, House, Design

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• It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beautiful, Parenting, Thinking

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• Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.

  Tim Robbins

  Past, Marijuana, Views

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• Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

  George Eliot

  Integrity, Mind, Elements

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

  Jacques Barzun

  Swings, Intellectual, Privilege

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

  Robert Menzies

  Company, Surprising

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• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Distance, Mean, Special

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• We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Oil, Raw Materials, Use

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