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• To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit of the occasion? Do you in quiet moments ponder it? Does Karl G.Maeser's phrase, "paragraphs from the book of our possibilities" rest upon you with a sense of mission so that, as President Heber J.Grant exemplified, "you "dream nobly and manfully" and prepare ceaselessly? Do you ever think of Heber C.Kimball's faith that you can "write your own patriarchal blessing" under inspiration, for, saith the Lord, "No good thing will I withhold...

  Truman G. Madsen

  Dream, Book, Inspiration

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• Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before.

  Edwin Feulner

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Book, Reading, Littles

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• A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Educational, Philosophy

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• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dream, Stars, Ocean

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• Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Moving

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to us as a child born in a crib. We stand in silent amazement...In silent adoration we stand before the mystery, like Mary when the shepherd came and told her what they had seen and heard: 'She kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.'

  Chiara Lubich

  Children, Heart, Years

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• Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins.
  No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth.
  Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.

  Al-Ghazali

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Lying

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• Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Prayer, Fasting, Whispering

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• Pondering a passage of scripture can be a key to unlock revelation and the guidance and inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Scriptures can calm an agitated soul, giving peace, hope, and a restoration of confidence in one’s ability to overcome the challenges of life. They have potent power to heal emotional challenges when there is faith in the Savior. They can accelerate physical healing.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspiration, Healing, Emotional

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• When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Profound

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• For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Book, Church, Use

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• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  Walter Pater

  Important, Elements, Consciousness

  Walter Pater (2011). “Essays from The Guardian”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

  Robert Fulghum

  Grieving, Levels, Wonder

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.57, Ivy Books

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• It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Religious, Real, Understanding

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• Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Awareness, Monk

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• Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.

  Margot Adler

  Mean, Dark, Views

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• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

  Harold Bloom

  Art, Reading, Sublime

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.

  Jared Taylor

  Mean, Race, Identity

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• It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.

  Bill Cowher

  Christian, Years, Guy

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• To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Independent, Thinking, Too Much

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• If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Teacher, War, Book

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Lying, Years, Pieces

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• We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fate, Heaven, Sitting

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