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• Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what weve done in the past.

  Tony Levin

  Past, Musician, Done

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• Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Running, Mind, Events

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• I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

  Todd Gitlin

  Party, Two, Differences

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

  Paul Westerberg

  Suicide, Writing, Darkness

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• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  Bernard Levin

  Dog, Pain, War

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• Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

  Tony Blair

  Children, War, Generations

  "What to Call Tony: Analysts Review Blair Legacy". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.

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• I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

  Dougray Scott

  Jumping, Would Be, Way

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• To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

  Robert Byrd

  War, Thinking, Horrible

  "We stand passively mute" by Robert Byrd, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2003.

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• Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

  Joseph Joubert

  Math, Logic, Metaphysics

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

  Georges Simenon

  Men, Saws, Parades

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• My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

  Francis Picabia

  Gossip, Behind My Back, Ass

  "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.

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• The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

  Lil Wayne

  Inspiration, Should Have, Done

  "Remembering Lil Wayne's Letters From Riker's Island" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. November 3, 2010.

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• The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Meditation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Entrepreneur, Cures, Parts Of Life

  "The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale".

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• Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Wind, Happens

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• The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

  Simone Weil

  Philosophy, Science, Years

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.335, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

  Clive James

  Art, Expression, Long

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

  David Hume

  Beauty, Mind, Quality

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

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• Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

  Jean Toomer

  Dream, Time, Thinking

  Jean Toomer (1980). “The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer”, Washington : Howard University Press

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• There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.

  Leigh Newman

  Chasing, Stills, Our Lives

  "Revelations Anyone Can Have" by Leigh Newman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Pieces, Paper

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• It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Progress, Foolish, Possibility

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when Im contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

  Meg Tilly

  Change, Children, Thinking

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• It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

  Hugh Laurie

  Time, Procrastination, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Aug 10, 2015

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