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• By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

  Anthony Collins

  Mean, Judging, Understanding

  Anthony Collins (1713). “A Discourse of Free-thinking: Occasion'd by the Rise and Growth of a Sect Call'd Free-thinkers ...”, p.10

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• By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

  M. C. Escher

  Teaching, Math, Artist

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• Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

  Bobby Robson

  Football, Games, Two

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• That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

  Robert Musil

  People, Voting, Democracy

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• Americans are driving more in less-efficient vehicles. Sales of sports utility vehicles and pickup trucks have been amazingly strong considering the recession, and low pump prices are keeping people on the roads

  Mike Lucky

  Sports, Strong, People

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• I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Mean, Tv News

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.219, Ballantine Books

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• Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Profound, Details, Answers

  Pascal Bruckner (2011). “Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.

  Quin Hillyer

  Real, Office, Facts

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• It’s a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world.

  Coco Ho

  World, Waste, Wasting Time

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• I am seriously considering it.

  Rebecca Loos

  Playboy

  "Trump 'Seriously Considering' 2012 Presidential Bid", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2010.

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• The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Writing, Light

  Washington Irving (1991). “Bracebridge Hall ; Tales of a Traveller ; The Alhambra”, p.467, Library of America

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• A cap and trade bill will likely increase the costs of electricity. . . . These costs will be passed on to the consumers. But the issue is, how does it actually...how do we interact in terms with the rest of the world? If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we would be at a disadvantage. . . . We should look at considering duties that would offset that cost.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Issues, Energy

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• The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Art, Science, Two

  "Methods of Prospection for Chromite" by Robert Woodtli, (p. 80), 1964.

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• [Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently attempting to originate new ones; considering that, however necessary to the advancement of science, they demanded a great sacrifice of time, and that when the fact was once established, that time was better employed in considering the purposes to which it might be applied, or the principles which it might tend to elucidate.

  Hudson Gurney

  Life, Sacrifice, Science

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• ... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development.

  Mary Hesse

  Science, Analogies, Development

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• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

  Walt Whitman

  Integrity, Listening To Others, Independence

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I question why the department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.

  Sheila Fraser

  Alternatives, Cost, Watches

  "Ottawa hid huge costs of gun plan, audit finds". www.theglobeandmail.com. December 4, 2002.

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• Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

  Donald Trump

  Pain, Discipline, Focus

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• Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Pain, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

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• Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.

  Hippocrates

  Health, Intelligent, Men

  Hippocrates (1979). “Hippocrates”

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• The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

  John C. Calhoun

  Trust, Country, Party

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl - and for the woman an attractive man - are the prizes they are after. 'attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. What specifically makes a person attractive depends on the fashion of the time, physically as well as mentally. ... Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Girl, Fashion

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black

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• In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable

  Ada Lovelace

  Interesting, Firsts, Natural

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• Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, May, Want

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• Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

  Robert Frost

  Sex, Motivation, Passion

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