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• Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

  John Green

  Art, Philosophy, Sick

  "John Green: novelist, vlogger, force for good" by Scott Shoger, www.nuvo.net. May 30, 2014.

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• So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact. It is there and you cannot escape it! It has come into existence with you.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Thinking, Looks

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• The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Different, Triangles

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

  Chelsea Manning

  Military, War, Unfinished Business

  "The Fog Machine of War" by Chelsea Manning, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2014.

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• Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

  Edward Abbey

  Turkeys, Envy, Littles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Cowboy, Hands

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Progress, Citizens, Banking

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.605

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• Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

  Terry Pratchett

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.64, Random House

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• Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

  John Marshall

  Government, Law, Void

  Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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• It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

  Augustine Birrell

  Believe, Men, Library

  Augustine Birrell (1902). “Collected Essays”

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• There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Wall, Black

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• To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Envy, Desire

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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• Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of their thoughts. The failures of science do not begin with flawed evidence or fumbled statistics; they begin with personal self-deception and an unjustified sense of knowing.

  Robert A. Burton

  Humility, Self, Knowing

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.170, Macmillan

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• Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Feelings, Desire

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• The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Zero, Mean

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• And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  War, Philosophy, May

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.209, Aeterna Press

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• When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Light, Who I Am, Names

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

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• When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

  Plato

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.228

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• Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Space, Giving, Advice

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• I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

  Richard Selzer

  Healthy, Alive, Body

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• The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

  Daniel Fried

  Iran, Nuclear, World

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