#contemplate

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

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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

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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. ↗

— David Hume

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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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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

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My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. ↗

— John Strachan

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