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• Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

  Carl Jung

  Letting Go, Ego, Midlife

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• Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

  Anne Rice

  Revenge, Interesting, Victory

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2294, Ballantine Books

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• It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

  John Fowles

  Life, Men, Perfectly Normal

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• She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where they’d been killed. She had fans in heaven..... Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate.

  Alice Sebold

  Prayer, Cities, People

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• People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

  Steven Pinker

  Acceptance, Long, People

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• Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, Hatred, Noble

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• A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.

  Will Self

  Party, People, Bears

  "All pleasant and correct". www.theguardian.com. June 30, 1996.

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• So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Possibility Of Change, Miracle, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.9, Penguin

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• Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

  Helen Fisher

  Girl, Eye, Names

  "Jealousy — The Monster". www.oprah.com.

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• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Music, Laughter, Reality

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• All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Nature, Business

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.250, Yale University Press

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• In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don’t be far from me, and also don’t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don’t unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don’t allow me hearing your voice

  Amin Maalouf

  Running, Stars, Prayer

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• It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Political, Politician, Terrible

  "The Cleveland Press" Newspaper, March 1, 1921.

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• To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, not falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous,beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Night, Thinking

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 570

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• A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

  Alan Lightman

  Action, Imagine, Results

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Heart, Past

  "Persuasion".

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• Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.

  Daniel Dennett

  Elements, Loyal, Facts

  Daniel C. Dennett (2007). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.255, Penguin UK

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• Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try

  Roger Waters

  Trying, Watches, Tvs

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• Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

  William Congreve

  Soul, States, Thee

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• And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

  Khalil Gibran

  Stars, Dwelling, Space

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

  Andre Dubus

  Believe, Earth, Too Much

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Adversity, Privilege

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.22, University of Georgia Press

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• It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Appreciation, Action, Pleasure

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