#behold

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. ↗

— Martha Beck

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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action. ↗

— Derek Luke

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