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• The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future

  John Maynard Keynes

  Past, Light, Together

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

  Vance Havner

  Today, Waste, Eternity

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, p.2, Solid Christian Books

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• However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.

  John of the Cross

  Wings, Solitude, Needs

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• The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.

  Charles Babbage

  Christian, Pain, Kindness

  "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher". Book by Charles Babbage, 1864.

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• When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

  Karl Jaspers

  Leaving, Events, Chaos

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• I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."

  Kenneth Tynan

  Indulge In, Luxury, Despair

  "Conference at Edinburgh (1963)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 146, 1967.

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• When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Giving, Poor

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.32

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• I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing... You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

  Trevor Brooking

  Country, Football, Pride

  "Reports of Peter Crouch England retirement amaze Sir Trevor Brooking". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• The moral person contemplates evil, the evil person commits it. And a person without a sense of humor can't distinguish between the two.... I know a lot of people who live in Marin County and contemplate spirituality and never get out of the hot tub.

  Larry Harvey

  Two, People, Evil

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• Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

  Samuel Richardson

  Moving, Decision, Progress

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• If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

  Plato

  Soul, Body, Ifs

  Phaedo, 66d (translated by H Tredennick).

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• A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

  Mary Antin

  Men, Unfinished Work, Yesterday

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.

  John Shaw Billings

  Jobs, Islands, People

  John Shaw Billings (1965). “Selected papers”

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• Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.

  Seth Klarman

  Assessment, Validation, Alternatives

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• When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.

  CeCe Winans

  Song, Light, Giving

  CeCe Winans (2000). “On a Positive Note”, Beyond Words/Atria Books

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• Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Soul, Rest Of Your Life, Palaces

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  People, Imagine, Difficult

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

  Roger Ebert

  Smart, People, Together

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• When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

  Saint Augustine

  Baby, People, Miracle

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• Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Night, Today

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2014

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• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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• The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think.

  Eugenio Montale

  Running, Moving, Past

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• ... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suicide, Might, Crisis

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Occupy Yourself, Imperfection

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• The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

  James G. Frazer

  Family, Mother, Men

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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