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• I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Book, Grandmother

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• In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, World, Moments

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.10, Branden Books

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• Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.134, Canongate Books

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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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• I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

  Margaret Stohl

  World, Mark, Havens

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• Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.

  William Maxwell

  Sensitive, Knows

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.

  Jacques Loeb

  Science, Discovery, Alcohol

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• I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mind, Sound, Nine

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.281, St. Martin's Press

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• The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.

  Claudia Jones

  New York, Usa, Liberty

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• McDonald's announced that it's considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn't it?

  Jay Leno

  Food, Animal, Humane Way

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• Most scientists assumethat life can only exist in physical life form. They send spaceships to other planets, looking for signs of physical life, not considering that life "may" also exist as energy or etheric form. Based on clairvoyant investigation, life also exists in etheric (energy) form; there are etheric beings of different degrees of awareness and development.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Energy, Degrees, Different

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• It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wife, Choices, Jake

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.282, NYLA

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• You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.

  Kiersten White

  Forget, Guardian, Forged

  Kiersten White (2011). “Supernaturally”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Thinking, Lakes

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• As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

  Michel de Certeau

  Believe, Firsts, Etc

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• If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Progressive, States, Discourse

  Edgar Allan Poe (1856). “The Select Works: With a Memoir of the Author. ¬The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”, p.269

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• It was a battle all day with our M&M's Camry. I don't know why, we just didn't have what we needed. We never seemed to have the ticket we needed today. We got better all day, which was a positive and salvaged something out of nothing -- so all things considering it was okay. It's so late in the year, you're just running laps now and getting what you can get and seeing if you can win next weekend at Homestead to finish the year.

  Kyle Busch

  Running, Weekend, Winning

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

  John Cleese

  Preparation, Alternatives, Moments

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• The moment you know that this is the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life, you should start the engagement process. Once you know this, the nature of the relationship changes. You view actions differently, the pressure to have sex increases, and your relationship with others is affected. If you're considering getting engaged, write out the sentence Staying married is hard work fifty times. ...Though I say this with some humor, I think these points bear repeating: Don't underestimate the work involved, but don't panic either.

  Kay Coles James

  Sex, Hard Work, Writing

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• I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas.

  Paul Pierce

  Player, Love Is, Nba

  "Paul Pierce: Players needed to make stand". Interview with Marc J. Spears, www.yahoo.com. November 20, 2011.

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• Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Law, Data, Pirate

  Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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• One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Community, Levels, Conspiracy

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• No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

  James Branch Cabell

  Quality, Remember, Break

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.135, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Kids, Dr Phil, Drs

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• Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks... Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.

  Silvanus P. Thompson

  Education, Stupid, Math

  Silvanus P. Thompson (1914). “Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus”

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