Considering Quotes - Page 24

• Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Long, Coercion

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2011). “The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment”, p.11, Anchor

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• As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

  Clarence Day

  Angel, Done, Modesty

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

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• Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Men, Wonderful, Behavior

  Salvador de Madariaga (1974). “Morning without noon: memoirs”

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• Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

  Immanuel Kant

  Country, Science, Law

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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• In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Grace, Earth

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• Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Math, Two, Illustration

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• My fiance and I had a few problems working through some of the things that he saw me say and do on the 'Surreal Life.' Considering the company that I was in, Ron Jeremy and Trishelle from 'The Real World,' I think I was pretty tame.

  Traci Bingham

  Real, Thinking, Saws

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• Finn crossed his arms and glared at Volusian. It was kind of a bold move, considering Finn looked like a cartoon character and Volusian looked like he ate the souls of small children. For all I knew, he probably did.

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Moving, Character

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.335, Zebra Books

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• Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

  James Fenton

  Drama, Littles, Poetic

  "A licence for drama" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2002.

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• People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

  Alexander Herzen

  Dream, Sleep, People

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• I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Humility, Accomplishment, Ego

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• Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get up, we should prostrate in that place. It is good to cultivate the habit of considering our pen, books, clothes, vessels, and the tools of our job as imbued with divine presence and use them with care and respect. This will help keep the thought of God alive throughout our body, mind and atmosphere.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Jobs, Book, Clothes

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• The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

  Guy Finley

  More Time, Persons, Shortcomings

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Apr 28, 2014

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• I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Flying, Monsters

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details of it all, the towering odds against our existence begin to become a bit unsettling. When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing.

  Eric Metaxas

  Thinking, Odds, Miracle

  Eric Metaxas (2014). “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life”, p.54, Penguin

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• When people think the issue can be solved, it becomes a moral imperative to be part of the solution. We can do a lot more within our school districts to recruit aggressively, select people according to high standards, invest in their training and development, and foster and reward their leadership. Once we invest more in attracting, developing and retaining teachers, potential recruits will begin to see it as a profession worth considering.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  Source: www.economist.com

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• If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

  Anne Waldman

  Practice, Kind, Integrating

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The government are considering spending £3million on a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher when she dies. For £3million they could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we'll dig a hole deep enough to deliver her to Satan ourselves.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Scotland

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• It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Different, Patterns

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• One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

  Desmond Tutu

  Want, Might, Failing

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• My motto is, if it isn't beneficial it isn't necessary. So, if it doesn't benefit me why am I even considering this bullshit?

  Drumma Boy

  Bullshit, Benefits, Motto

  Source: www.complex.com

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• At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Jesus, Block

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• I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Sex, Dirty, Mean

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• To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Men, Hollywood

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